Great! Thanks for playing and adding it to the archives.
@ PokettoKunoichi: Glad you liked that father scene. It was the only new section I added after the initial script was written 3 years ago (I took out a less-interesting scene and replaced it with this one), and I do feel it's one of the best parts of the story.
I wanted to convey the idea of responsibility to care for the family as the duty of the husband and a natural part of married life that should be passed on from generation to generation. A lot of the broken homes I've seen today are a result of the husband / father failing to fulfill this role - to take on the responsibility of caring for the family and passing it on to the next generation - so this was written as a specific response to that issue. Plus there are some psychological issues behind this as well... I believe that any woman raised with a strong and kind father-figure in her life would naturally want her father to approve of her choice of husband, and this is the clearest demonstration of the trust her father has placed in Becky's husband - to step into his shoes as the new head of the household.
(Yes, I have a tendency to layer meaning upon meaning in the stories I write, even though it doesn't always show explicitly in the writing. I could go on and on about each section's meaning and how it fits into the overall picture, but I'll stop here.
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@ V2Blast and Ren: Admittedly, I was pumping in the sweetness factor by the barrel in this story, so I'm not too surprised if you found it too cutesy for your tastes.
It IS meant to be an idealised love story, after all. I deliberately made each section as sweet or touching as I could write. Think of this as the first attempt at a VN-equivalent of inspirational chick-lit stories. (I'm finding out that girls tend to like the story better than guys do.) I used up about 2 years of sweetness in writing this, though, so I'm pretty sure my next piece of work is going to be rather dark and possibly angsty / depressing.
-Dizzy-
