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As always, I抣l keep 慹m brief.
This story turned out to be very, very long, long enough so that I came very close to losing interest completely. In the end I posted the first chapter alone, hoping that it would give me incentive to finish it. It ticked a few people off doing it that way, but the job got done.
After having planned and started this story, I discovered a disturbing similarity between its premise and that of 揟he Old and the Beautiful??an episode I hadn抰 actually seen, but once I discovered this plot had been done before, I decided to refer to it. I think the stories ended up dissimilar enough to prevent accusations of plagiarism.
Holding a School Review Meeting on Sunday is, of course, a take from the Fizz Ed episode (which happens after this story) in which Ms. Li pulled the same stunt. I assumed she抎 probably done it before.
The Shawshank Redemption, based on a work by Stephen King. It抯 about a guy in prison, and that抯 all I抣l say about it because those who haven抰 seen it shouldn抰 know the plot in advance. I highly recommend the film. I haven抰 read the book.
I realize I抦 guilty of a little Sandi-bashing here, but I tried to at least make her a sympathetic character.
Trent抯 description of how he got back into the house after six months in a tent is borrowed from Ruthless Bunny抯 short story 揑ntense? I recommend that story as well as everything else R.B. has written.
Daria owes Quinn a favor after my previous story, "Is Summer Over Already?". While I generally try to make each of my stories stand alone, this was a case where a plot point was most easily resolved by referring to an earlier incident.
Of course, season five shows no indication that Trent and Link are hanging out together. But, it doesn抰 show that they抮e not either. I think Trent and Link would get along very well, mostly because Trent won抰 pass judgement and Link needs someone who抯 an adult but also totally non-threatening. His crush on Quinn was purely for comic value, but hey, wouldn抰 any eleven-year-old boy be smitten with her?
Thanks to everyone for their encouragement toward the final stages of this story, thanks to Glenn Eichler and the rest of the Daria crew over at MTV, thanks to the webmasters who posted this story.
And most of all, thanks to my wife Rachel who is nothing short of the finest beta-reader any writer could ask for. She抯 cute, too.
Daria and crew are not my creation. They are owned by MTV, I think.
This story, with the specific words placed in the proper order as shown, is my creation, Copyright 2001 by Mike Yamiolkoski, and may only be reproduced in its entirety with this notice intact.
Questions, comments, scathing reviews, FAN ART? E-mail me at MikeYamiolkoski@cs.com.