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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Sally,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TRAINING WHEELS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lovely imagery, another Sally original snapshot of a precious moment in time. I always am touched and moved by your talent of painting living pictures in a handful of words.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Cleora,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Transformed <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I really loved this ending. I think you should offer it for publication as a short story or novella. It is the perfect way to bring this set of stories to a conclusion. You couldn’t have carried the series on much longer. This is really good.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Marcia,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I believe that when a child born, the umbilical cord may be physically cut, but spiritually, it just stretches. When my lovely 17-year-old daughter became pregnant and wanted to marry the father of her child, I made her wait until she turned 18 and gave her the wedding she wanted even though I was appalled. She was so bright, had been accepted in to a good college, was beautiful and I felt she was too young. Sixteen months later she had a second child. Two and a half years after that her youngest was born. Her husband drank, gambled, couldn’t manage money or provide a safe place for them to live. He was arrested and charged with the assault of a young girl. He was found not guilty, but by then was accused of assaulting other girls. He is still in prison. Sometimes, the only thing we can do is continue to love our children even if their choices don’t work out as they or we hoped. She has been married now for two years and seems to be happy, her youngest is 21 and her oldest has given her three grandsons. As Kahlil Gibran says, we are the bows, and they are the arrows. We launch them into the world but can’t control where their flight will take them. Love and pride in our children still remain.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Leonard,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>King Crab<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The first sentence either needs the word (A) before campground, or adding an (S) to campground to make it campgrounds.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Aren’t crabs (arthropods?) I think that tetra pods are four footed generally.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>You have two uses of seem in this sentence: He didn’t seem frightened as most captured crabs seemed to be. If you change one of them to (appear,) that would work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>His huge claw may have falsely bolstered his confidence.(needs an S since crabs have two claws. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I believed he had every right to (do,) change to (be)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Humorous piece. Of course if he really believed what he said, he would have himself tossed overboard to serve as food for the fishes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>DeAnna Quietwater Noriega<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Cell: 573-544-3511<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Email: <a href="mailto:dqnoriega@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>dqnoriega@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Author of <i>Fifty Years of Walking with Friends<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>https://www.dldbooks.com/dqnoriega/</span></i><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>