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Date Posted: 16:36:01 10/22/25 Wed
Author: Mark
Author Host/IP: 63.224.188.86
Subject: Re: A request for Mark
In reply to: Curious 's message, "A request for Mark" on 06:30:53 10/18/25 Sat

Sorry I'm just seeing this question now. It must have been buried under some other posts because I didn't see it this weekend.

You make a good point about the lack of closure regarding Isabel. I never intended to make her or Elijah more than one-time presences who served the purposes of enhancing the narratives of the leads. After all, most of my extended family that I see at weddings are not in any way recurring fixtures of my life so it would have been odd for the narrator to have enduring observations of Elijah and Isabel's trajectories.

With that said, you're not wrong that I should have served up some sort of denouement for Isabel and Elijah's sibling relationship in the aftermath of the reception sprinkler incident. And honestly, it's food for thought for revisiting in future chapters even though so much time has now passed.

This is why I always welcome constructive reader feedback. It can be pivotal to unlocking observations that had escaped the author's vision. I've gotten a few reader tips over the years that I've internalized and eventually ran with.

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