I'm not even sure I know what it would mean to physically erase someone's virginity--the emotional way is the way that matters, and really, any sexual matters aside, John's the most jaded of the four, I think, and in that way was the guy ripe for a dunking and a new appreciation of the miracle that is his life. I mean, God knows he might never have stopped to take account of the fact that he--loner extraordinare--was now in another galaxy with a huge position of respect and responsibility, enmeshed in a family and really free of any regulations he might have spent his life butting against. And so, you know, John really needs to kick back and look at the stars a little. He's freer than he thinks; in a lot of ways, he's got it all--and by the end, he's got love, too. *G*