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	Concerning Ranma's redemption.  If Nabiki is... was right about
him... if the face Saotome showed her is truly his own... than the man is
_beyond_ all help.

	Problem is, after that last sparring session with Akane I've
become ever more convinced that there is a lonely and frightened boy
behind that shell despite his occasional psychotic episodes (it's a
reasonable assuption that he is trying to defend himself from everything
he fears the only way he knows how... through terror and violence).
	Under that assumption; I think that with time, professional
psychiactric help, medication, and the suppourt of someone that neither
hates nor fears him (i.e. Akane)... I think he could be made sane...
eventually. 

	In any case it is a moot point, as unless Ranma kills both 'Tsen'
and Mariko (the elder Hibiki having proven himself more of a hinderance
than anything) he is as good as dead if he stays in Nerima (and that's
assuming no other 'old friends' show up).

HTG