*Cries and cries* This is--I was going to say lovely, but maybe that's not right, though it IS very much full of love and human frailty, so there's something really TRUE about it. I think it must say more about ME and my incapacity to deal with things that I find myself thinking, frantically, "No, no! We'll put him in statis! He could live in a virtual reality! Be a hologram! We could find an ancient machine that--" but maybe John and Rodney wouldn't do that or want that, and it would happen just like this.

Thanks so much for writing it!