On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Scott Jamison wrote:

	Maybe she should ask to see a future where she didn't marry, just 
to see what other options she had.  Could she be a career woman?  And 
doing what?  She doubted she would last a week as an OL.  Maybe 

A what?
What's an OL?

professional sports?  Acting might be nice, if she could get decent 
roles.  She was already too old to start an idol singer career, even if 
she wanted that.

What about DoCo? :)

	"I asked Ranma about it while I was making the brooches, and I 
did a little reading.  You didn't think I would give you all magic things 
without knowing what they did, did you?  Here, let me dry your tears."  

Well, yes.  In the manga, she doesn't seem very foresightful or 
insightful to me.  And hardly anyone else in this series thinks before 
they act :)

Mrs. Saotome pulled out a hanky and dabbed gently at Akane's 

face. > 	"I messed things up, just like Ranma always says."

	"Did you really?  The others all asked for their own dreams.  
Only you thought to try for everyone's happiness.  Perhaps the Mirror 
finally ran out of power, or it couldn't find the future you wanted.  Or 
perhaps, just maybe, it took you into that future as far as it could, and 
we'll have to walk the rest of the way there ourselves, one step at a 
time.  The way we always do."  Nodoka hugged Akane, just a little.

Or perhaps there is no such solution and it committed suicide in order to 
save its own face. (Today's excessively cynical remark)



John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
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conscientious research of the writer of these pages.  If there are 
vices--as possibly there are--from which he was exempt, it is because 
it is not permitted to human nature to attain perfection even in 
evil." --William Lothrop Motley