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] Date Posted:00:01:43 06/12/09 Fri In reply to:
Johnson
's message, "Blue Beauty - thru Chap 3" on 23:15:47 06/11/09 Thu
>I do question how rapidly Myleigh came to confide very
>personal things with Trey. He had evidently just been
>one of the rather anonymous students in her class
>until he helped get her set up on stage. It wasn't
>even until they had been talking for a bit that she
>found out he wasn't just a few years out of high
>school. For someone who had made a habit of being
>rather intense about her privacy, she certainly opened
>up to him pretty quickly. It seems there should have
>been some, evidently missing, scene that would have
>caused her to believe he would be an appropriate
>person with whom to share some of her private thoughts.
>
>Also, I kept expecting Myleigh to make some simple
>comment regarding Trey's listening skills. From one
>very brief mention of her name early on, he remembered
>Crystal's name later in the conversation. With all the
>completely new information being shared, most people
>probably wouldn't have recalled the name. Did Myleigh
>have some reason to take for granted Trey's attention
>to detail?
Remember that Myleigh is very hyper from the success of this off the cuff concert, so that probably diluted her normally high defenses. And Trey is a sharp cookie in his own way. The fact that he is relatively anonymous to her at this point may make it easier for her to talk to him. But yeah, you raise a valid point.
>In any case, I'm really looking forward to the rest of
>this novel. Thanks!
Date Posted:00:18:46 06/13/09 Sat
>>I do question how rapidly Myleigh came to confide very
>>personal things with Trey. He had evidently just been
>>one of the rather anonymous students in her class
>>until he helped get her set up on stage. It wasn't
>>even until they had been talking for a bit that she
>>found out he wasn't just a few years out of high
>>school.
>
>Remember that Myleigh is very hyper from the success
>of this off the cuff concert, so that probably diluted
>her normally high defenses. And Trey is a sharp cookie
>in his own way. The fact that he is relatively
>anonymous to her at this point may make it easier for
>her to talk to him. But yeah, you raise a valid point.
>-- Wes
My thought is that Trey is not "one of the rather anonymous students". Trey has been in Myleigh's class for most of the term. She has read his writings and has heard his responses in class. I believe that Myleigh as a new teacher would pick up on the maturity of Trey. He has been in the Army and he is a junior in college. Another key point is that he is 25 and that is not that much younger than Myleigh because I don't believe she is more than 26 or 27 years old.
In remembering Crystal's name, I have to go by my own traits. And I know that if I saw the picture of Myleigh, Crystal and Randy, I would remember their names because of the surprise of the nature of the picture.
Thank you Wes for reminding us that Myleigh was "very hyper from the success of this off the cuff concert." Events like this do make us want to share with somebody, especially when we do not immediate friends close at hand.
I appreciate your writing and your editorial efforts. Thank you for sharing your gift.
