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So, umm...wow. I actually don't know how to describe my feelings about this. This story's (relative) success caught me completely off guard.

The story I've created over the past 50K or so words is drastically different than the one that popped into my head on a snowy February day. And frankly, all the change was for the better. Not going to lie; this story still is far from perfect. There are tons of things I would change, given the chance. But they're in there now, and I don't think they harmed it too much (I've seen at least one of you who would disagree on one of the things, but eh).

And I feel obligated to mention this, but sequel? A possibility. I've been throwing around ideas since the summer, and I'm working ~~diligently~~ ~~slowly~~ painstakingly lethargically on refining it. Already scrapped a couple big ideas that turned out to be dead ends. So yeah. If there is another installment in this, you can rest assured that there will be considerably less of me flying by the seat of my pants, which made up a significant (and embarrassingly large) portion of this story.

And I hit "Publish" on this story for the last time. To be honest, it's a little saddening. Even though I sometimes dreaded writing for this (in most cases, big gaps in chapters are there because I couldn't pull myself to keep writing), I'm glad I kept going. This story is responsible for about 75% of all my total story views, and it has not only 61 more likes than I anticipated, but also 62 favorites more (number of favorites > number of likes, somebody's holding out), and not to mention it's a mere 8 views from hitting 1000 as I'm writing this. I thoroughly enjoyed making this story, and I hope you guys (outside the 14 downvoters) enjoyed reading it.

Now an order; you guys don't stop being amazing readers.