Oh. My. God. This was SUCH a perfect love story! EVERY bit of it made me happy! Damaged!John doing penance. Forced to face life by Equally Damaged in his own way!Rodney. Surrounded by my favorite characters! The Oregon coast! The kites? so very cool... from the Afghani ~fighting kites~ to the Japanese wishing kite and the rest in between! So much more to point out but I'd end up repeating your entire story to you! LOVED it! I'll be commenting on this in the future as I read and re-read!

Your story has it's new home in my Favorites folder!! (oh, and teh sexor? HOTTER than the surface of the sun!!)