Thank you (where's the embarrassed, blushing smilie?) And thank you for providing this form of challenge to goad the muse a little bit
I usually walk away from my writings for awhile, then later revisit them for further review. I'll spare you the disembowling self-critique I did on the mechanics of this piece, but I really must apologize for my acute case of "ellipsis-itis" throughout it.
So.......for......that.......I'm......terribly......sorry.....dear.....readers