On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Reid Carson wrote:

	Once I schemed to secure his affections. I made his life a
misery with my tricks and traps. But he avoided them all, sometimes by
luck, sometimes by skill, sometimes by sheer bullheadedness. Now - now
I've given up. I tell myself that it's to avoid alienating him, that I'm
playing a waiting game. Deep inside, I know the truth. He loves Akane
Tendo. If I cannot have him, let him love as he will. Let him be happy
- I cannot deny him that. He is too dear to me. Some of the others
sense it, I think. I see the looks they give me at times, but what of
it? They say nothing because they can prove nothing.

	I recall the words I said to him when we first met. "You're a
hundred years too late to challenge me." How bitterly ironic those
words ring in retrospect. If he'd been born a century earlier, or I a
century later....

	She turns to go off in search of her fiancee. "See you around,
Cologne."

	Indeed you will, my love. My only love.

	Yup, definite case of living vicariously through her decendant.
	Wonder what would happen if 'Poo actually realized that 'Hibachan'
has her eye on her 'Airen'?

HTG