As I said in an earlier message, I have been receiving 2 types of
notes about my two most recent parts of Lesson in Love. I REALLY need to
make some things clear, or else I am going to keep crying as I have been
the past two days.

	1. The whole diary thing at the end was a plot device, and NOT
	a conclusion to the whole damn story!!!! There was a reason for
	it to be there, but it is gone now, so I took the damn thing
	out, OK??
	
	2. NO ONE IS GETTING MARRIED IN L IN L SO DON'T THINK THAT!!!
	I canned the Akari thing. That was to appease my concience, and
	I wish I had never put it in. I wrote that part in 10 min, and
	it shouldn't have been there.

	3. I changed all of Chapter 13, and Akane goes to the HOSPITAL
	So, no Dr. Tofu, who is absent in most of the latter mangas 
	anyway. So, Kasumi and Tofu thing canned. Actually, I don't
	think I was going to do anything with that anyway, so I would
	have probably written it out.

	4. Nabiki and Kuno stay. There is a reason for it. And NO it
	shouldn't have been a suprise, since I had Kuno hanging around
	Nabiki in Chapter 1, and then there was the Photos chapter where
	she has this sort of epiphany that she needs someone. There is
	going to be a Kuno and Nabiki story soon, and the reason why
	she picked him ISN'T the one that is traditionally used. PLEASE
	give me some time and some credit, and don't think that this
	was the END, set in stone, and that nothing is ever going to
	change. This is FAR from the end of L in L, it was only the
	end of -THE FIRST HALF!!!- (though the second half isn't going
	to be nearly as long as the first) More on this subject
	later.

	5. Again, the diary entry was supposed to be a closure, and 
	a foreshadowing of what I was going to talk about in the 
	next half. *shrug* I guess it didn't work. It's gone.

me, it appeared you fell into an old fanfic writers trap; lets get
everyone married off and live happily ever after.  Sort of a Mickey

It was SUPPOSED to look like that, but I was going to deconstruct it in
the next part, because everyone is going to be split apart again. However,
everyone keeps basing it on as if that I had settled the WHOLE story,
happy ending right there, when it wasn't going to happen that way. 
Needless to say, I took it out. I also rewrote part XIII to change the
attitudes of the players.

     Kasumi and Dr. Tofu.  Not much of a stretch here.  Both the manga
and the video series have devoted some time to their 'relationship'. 

nod nod. But, I decided to strip that too. I was actually never going to
do anything else with either of their characters, whereas Nabiki is going
to get a side-story eventually. + I totally took Dr. Tofu out of part 13,
because, as Richard Lawson pointed out, Tofu is a bone doctor, and Akane
should be in the hospital. ^_^ SOOO Tofu and Kasumi... nill. I don't think
either will ever be mentioned again in L in L other than as little
insertion characters every once and awhile.

Ryouga and Ukyou having sex.

Oh, they didn't sleep together. Seems no one on this list has ever just
cuddled and kissed someone before. Sigh. I figured, since I had Akane and
Ranma doing cuddling and kissing and no sex, that people would get it that
Ryouga and Ukyou HADN'T done it either. Again, I guess I was assuming too
much. Sigh again. 

Tatewaki Kuno and Nabiki Tendo is as amusing as pairing Akane with
reason for these two to be married.

MARRIED??? Eeep. Who said that? Also, like I said, Nabiki is going to have
a side story later. Part of the problem is that there was SUCH a long gap
between parts 10 and the most recent ones, that no one really remembers
much about Nabiki and the photos and her feelings from the earlier
chapters. Nabiki needs someone, I was trying to show that, because she
doesn't have much of an emotional side. She is trying to come to grips
with her OWN obsessive behavior, and I am going to make more of that
later. ALSO I am not going to follow the path that "Nabiki earns the money
to fix up the dojo because Daddy doesn't have any money." I think that's
sort of silly. The girls and the Soun have plenty of money, both from the
Tedo family estate, and their mother's trust fund, which they can't
inherit until they are older. I don't know if Kuno and Nabiki will remain
together, because I can't stand the Kuno character much myself. I don't
really like Nabiki either, but I want to work on her and her obsessivness
(I think the side story is going to be called "Obsessions") and her coming
to terms with who she is and why she does the things she does. Maybe,
somehow, I can find redemption for Nabiki, who is really a lot more
cold-hearted in the manga then she is in the anime.

     To suggest that Nabiki would go all weak-kneed over Kuno is to
sell the girl exceedingly short (not to mention tossing her entire
personality away in favor of a drooling love puppy).  Of all the Tendo

I changed what she says slightly in the beginning of Part 14. I didn't
mean her to come across that way. I meant to show that she was
manipulating things for herself, and that she had moved on to a new thing
to control. Control is very big with Nabiki, and she doesn't like to have
to deal with people who are smarter or better than her. This is why she
goes for Kuno, because he is easy to control. This is going to be part of
her little transformation later on. Like I said, I dunno if I will keep
the two together, but I need the combination right now.

     What could she gain by such a marriage?  Nothing of value (and
trust me, Nabiki knows the value of *everything*.)  Marrying Kuno for

EEP!!! When did I -EVER- write that they were getting married?????

NO ONE IS GETTING MARRIED IN LESSON IN LOVE!!!! ARRRGH!!!!!!!

YOU GUYS ARE READING  WWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAYYYY tooo much into this!!!!!

     As she has never shown a serious consideration for the love sick
elder Kuno in anyplace except misguided fanfictions, I felt the
pairing was done for writer convenience if nothing else.  (I think

YES. But not for the reason you think.


This is all I can say.

For those of you who loved it, thanks. For those of you who didn't, I
appreciate your comments. HOWEVER, I would REALLY appreciate it next time
if you would GIVE ME A CHANCE before jumping all over my back!!!

ARRRGH!!

There are some things that the negative comments hit right on the nail,
and I did my best to incorporate them. However, I can't possibly do
everything that everyone would want, and I don't want to anyway. Because,
although I am posting the story for others to read, I am still writing
this story just because I have it floating about in myself and I want to
get it out.
	

I am not going to say I am going to quit writing, or anything like that,
but I have seriously considered it in the past 48 hours. I got a lot of
really nice mail about it, with truly helpful comments, even on negative 
points. I am the kind of person who really wants to make everyone happy,
and what will end up happening is that I will keep fixing this damn thing
over and over again until it isn't my story anymore. And that kills me.

Please, if you are going to write to me, don't be nasty and horrible. It
really upsets me. I can only do so much, and much of what I have done is
going to stand because that's the way I wanted it.

Much will be revealed later.

I sincerely apologize if this upsets you.

Marisa Price