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[> Thank you -- Robin, 22:48:35 10/20/09 Tue [1]

When I occasionally read comments that Gina's Janeway/Seven Just Between series has 'saved' someones life (or sanity) I often wonder what trials that person was/is facing. I can't say reading the series saved my life but it has brought a level of happiness to my life that I now cannot live without. It is truly unfortunate that nobody writes the characters like Gina because there is nowhere else to go to get my fix.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

To me, coping with the stresses of daily life is the 'monster' and, yes, too often I've worn a monster mask and responded or acted in ways I most despise. In the second half of the quote Dictionay.com defines 'abyss' as anything profound, (unfathomable, or infinite). I knew as I was reading Gina's JB series that it was profound and I knew that the very words I was reading were also reading me. I'm specifically speaking of the emotions of love and compassion between Janeway and Seven, their devotion to each other and their steadfast enduring loyalty.

I apologize for continuing to use other's thoughts to express myself, but honestly I'm not that smart, only smart enough to realize Emily Dickinson can describe how I feel about JB & M better than I can.

And now, I'm different from before,
As if I breathed superior air,
Or brushed a royal gown;
My feet, too, that had wandered so,
My gypsy face transfigured now
To tenderer renown.

Regardless of what I write here it is impossible to adequately describe how this series has positively changed me and made me happier. (Nobody writes lesbian sex like Gina; JB & M is a fabulous How-to manual. But that's another message.)

Joy to all,
Robin