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First of all, my hugest apologies for being even less on top of things than usual right now. I'm afraid I'm less "back" than I'd hoped-- my husband is worse (for those of you who don't know, he's post-transplant and spends a lot of time in the hospital, but right now he's unconscious again and breathing on a vent which is REALLY not good) and, um, yeah, I'm not getting into everything else in my personal life that's causing me to lose what little mind was remaining to me; I'll just say I'm sorry I'm so behind on replying to everyone's lovely messages and recs and fics and generally all things LJ.

Anyway, you know how sometimes I write a story in response to comments on a story? This is kind of a chatty non-story post in response to comments on the last story. I was just writing it as a reply to the comments in question, and then it got all long and rambly and interconnected and I thought it would work better as a separate post. Also it's faster for me, and also if anybody wants to kick up further discussion, well, go for it!

(also disclaimer, I wrote this whole thing really fast and at like three in the morning, so if any of it doesn't make any sense, let me know.)

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