Hello,<br /><br />Thank you for your sympathy and kind remarks. I hope I'll be able to move on as well.<br /><br />I'm sorry I misunderstood what you meant, but I really did not think that the two pieces needed to be changed substantially in order to integrate them. I thought they flowed together well. With the exception of the description of the empty chair in the first, there was not really any redundant information in the second, and your use of the technique in the second was appropriate by simply referencing the description in the first section.<br /><br />However, I do believe it benefitted substantially from the overall edit.<br /><br />I don't know how Patti charged you, whether for an edit of the entire piece, but I would be more than happy to give you a 50% discount if she did.<br /><br />All the Best,<br /><br />Nyanidoc