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Hmm.  I meant to use Dad's earliest drawing of me as a signature image, but all that comes out are pixels.  Never mind.   I'll get the hang of this eventually.  In the meantime, you can see his portraits of me at my website (pchodgell.com) under the PC. intro.  He tried to paint me whenever I would sit still, which wasn't often.  Note that he and my mother divorced when I was two, so he didn't have a lot of opportunities.

This is sort of a reply to Lcp-patron, but it applies to several other respondents as well.

I'm constantly awed by how long certain readers have followed Jame's progress, especially with its drastic stops and starts.  For me, it's weird in that I started telling her story when I was about 22, between college and grad school, although I'd grown up dreaming it.  For me, some 35 years have past; for her, only three or four.  That's a big gap.  Am I still in touch with her?  I hope so, since that means I'm still in touch with the core of my own essence.  I didn't intend this, but each novel ends up dealing with whatever is/was upsetting me at the time.  Now that both of my parents are dead, I tend to look more closely at Jame's relationship with her dam and sire, especially with what made them what they were.  I never had a traditional family.  In a way, that's a strength; in another, a weakness.  

I'd like to think that Jame's story remains relevant because, in a sense, it's universal.  At least, your continued interest seems to indicate so.  For that. I'm very grateful, if only because it makes me feel less alone.  Perhaps we are all Jame, or Tori.

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