Argh, I'm reminded that I forgot to integrate the bit about how at the very moment when I was pursuing Hazel most ardently (feeling I was finally getting close to the prize), I found out that everybody at the Big Time and the Elysian thought AP and I were lovers. That was such an incredible shock to my system. Perhaps the very thing that pricked the bubble. It's also when I coined the term "closet heterosexual," which you may remember I was still using when you pricked my bubble at the 2000 Corflu.