OH MY GOODNESS! We are on the same wavelength.<br /><br />Simon and I married just months after the shooting - the ordeal brought our whole family closer. I prefer to say he is my husband.<br />&nbsp;<br />Also, I have been arranging and rearranging the trial transcript portions with the chapter portions and it seems like the only way to place the order and it work very well is to use NEAR MISS as the foreword or begin the book with it. My concern is this: NEAR MISS is 4600ish words, Revolutionary Revelations is also 4000 and some change words. Revolutionary Revelations (which happened years before the shooting (15 years) is the basis of the part of the story I have to make sure isn't lost or overclouded. NEAR MISS makes the book start out so fast. I am still undecided whether to just begin the book with NEAR MISS and have another foreword altogether.<br /><br />I can begin piecing the officer's testimony immediately after guns (responding to the shooting at the elderly couple) but what concerns me about that is the premonitions chapter I want to use at least in part when officers searched Edward's room and found the guns and so many knives.<br /><br />As far as the order of the rest of the testimony - I am working that out this evening so that I know exactly which parts are going to go where. So far, I have 45 pages in a Word documet and I am about halfway through. I know this is what will push this book from just a Best Seller to over the top - millions of copies. I feel like it is Charlie St. Cloud, The Shack with a 6th Sense twist of glimpses of the trial coming in the future.<br /><br />I am taking a 30 minute walk and then will get back to figuring the order out. I am so excited and thankful to have you helping me spur this project on.&nbsp;<br /><br />I will see what I can do to get you a better idea of the order. I have attached a spreadsheet with the current order. I will resend it as soon as I have it updated. Hoping tonight but by tomorrow at the latest.&nbsp;<br /><br />I feel it is of the utmost importance to get this decided on, once and for all.&nbsp;<br /><br />You can hardly imagine what it means to know we are thinking along the same lines. Most of these chapters have been through 2 editors - it's surprising they never realized what you have picked up on in just a few days. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.&nbsp;<br /><br />Barbara