Hi Erik,<br /><br />Thank you, I think, for the opportunity to read and edit your book. I only say &lsquo;I think&rsquo; because I must tell you that I didn&rsquo;t know whether to start sobbing or hurl my computer off the deck when I tried to reformat it. I had edited about 90 pp when I noticed that the margins were far too small. No problem, just reformat it. It wouldn&rsquo;t even let me do a global format, so I did a couple of pages and they were fine. Then I did a couple more, and it didn&rsquo;t just revert, but blew up in my face and became much worse. It looked like the R margin had suddenly become 5&rdquo; or something, so that in the left margin next to other text, there were 2 letters each marching down the pages. Usually, I start praying as soon as I have problems, but I became so frustrated and stubborn that I just kept doing the same thing over and over w/ the same disastrous results. Finally, I started to pray, long after you would have, my friend, but I was still having trouble until I heard Him say quite clearly, &lsquo;Go to the end and work backwards.&rsquo; So I did, although I still don&rsquo;t have the foggiest idea why that would make the slightest difference. I turned on &lsquo;show formatting,&rsquo; made the first change and it held. I saved and moved on, praying continuously, made the next change, and it held. I saved and moved up. When I got to the first section break, which is where things always went very badly wrong, I held my breath, prayed furiously, hit delete, and it held. PTL!! And on I went, praying, making one change at a time, saving, and moving up for 210 pp. When I got to where I&rsquo;d started, it looked great, so I saved and closed it. Then I reopened it, saying, &lsquo;Lord, if this blows up again, I&rsquo;m just going to cry and give up.&rsquo; But when it opened, it was perfect! PTL to the 10th power!! All I can say is, praise God for His goodness and grace! So, I thought from then on it would be straightforward editing, but as I was working on it the next day, Word suddenly reformatted the entire document, adding indents I&rsquo;d removed, removing all the bold and most of the italics, and switching a huge section to another font. The font was easy to correct, but I had to make all the other changes by hand again. I was so frustrated. After that, I began to close it often and reopen it, hoping it wouldn&rsquo;t do it again. I have no idea if that made any difference, but it didn't happen again, thank the Lord.<br /><br />If you&rsquo;re wondering why it&rsquo;s so much shorter, besides all the headers and some blank pages, there were also quite a few duplicate entries. However, there seem to be a couple of days that are missing. I've made comments where they occur.<br /><br />However, in any case, God certainly worked many miracles through you during your time there. I know that He is well pleased and that you, and especially those whose lives He touched and changed so dramatically through your witness, are very grateful for His marvelous work. You certainly did not go to prison or spend your time there in vain. God does indeed work in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.<br /><br />I will say that the end does not do justice to the book. You must describe your last day there, your farewells to the men you befriended, your joyful reunion w/ your family, what it felt like when you first stepped back into your home, and anything special you did that night to celebrate w/ your family. Also, it isn&rsquo;t clear if you&rsquo;d ever been separated from them for that long before. We should know that.<br /><br />Finally, I find it absolutely extraordinary that you&rsquo;ve been bitten so many times. I have worked w/ all kinds of animals all my life, and although I cannot remember every bite, I do know that in all instances, a court would have found them guilty at most of justifiable assault. The first was a gopher I drowned out of its burrow as a child then picked up. Clearly good cause. I&rsquo;ve been bitten by a number of frightened rats in the lab&mdash;again, justifiable&mdash;and by several snakes understandably annoyed at being captured. The worst bites have been inflicted by two of my own dogs, one who had just been hit by a car and critically injured, another time by accident when one was attacking another of my dogs in the dark and my hand was in the way, and I was nipped several times by a dog w/ PTSD whom I was trying to rehab. I also was nipped by one client&rsquo;s nasty little dog. One of my horses bit me accidentally after he became blind and mistook my arm for the horse stalled next to him, whom he detested. I&rsquo;ve been bitten by small birds who didn&rsquo;t appreciate being smooched&mdash;those probably come closest to deliberate&mdash;and once, notably, but not badly, by an excited tiger cub--I'm not sure there's any other kind.<br /><br />If you could take a moment of your time to rate my work, I would appreciate it very much.<br /><br />Very best regards and blessings,<br /><br />Nyanidoc<br /><br />