Dear Friends,

I have decided that chapter 25 of this story is the final chapter that will be written for "Love Will Always Prevail". It reached its climax and anything I write now will just be the falling action. But I want to let you know that, even though this IS the final full-length story (as I've said from the beginning) I will continue to occasionally write in the "Memories" section.

To my wonderful, faithful people who reviewed EVERY SINGLE TIME and showed such encouragement and love and warmth…thank you. Words cannot express how much I thank those of you who took a couple of minutes to let me know after every chapter. It meant the world and was a huge reason I kept going.

To the people who never reviewed, but enjoyed my writing, anyway…I just don't get it. I have been listening to Siri read my old stories and old chapters and there's always one thing in common—almost every chapter ends with my asking for a review. It was something I learned from other authors in the early days (eight years ago) when I was reading other people's work and noticed it was something others did, and as those eight years of my own writing have passed, I understand now why other authors did it, too.

Enthusiasm and support does feed the muse and oft times, the muse was not fed.

In the past 5 months I have been going through a lot in my personal life and those of you who always supported me…you'll never know how uplifting a couple of kind words about my writing were and always will be.

There was one guest reviewer who only ever wrote "An update?" as a review and I wonder if that person actually ever took a moment and wrote anything meaningful or encouraging. I guess I'll never know. I know that in the scheme of things it takes a couple of hours to write a chapter and only a couple of minutes to write a review (if that) and those of you who even wrote 2 words of encouragement are and always have been greatly appreciated. You just don't know.

And as I always like to do, the inspirations from my stories are the two beautiful women who made it all possible—Mariska Hargitay and Stephanie March. In writing them, I can see their mannerisms, hear their voices, and as the years have passed, feel their characters when I write.

From the beginning, when I started getting into SVU (just 9 years ago, I binge-watched it in a few months). I, like many others, saw the connection between them. Whether it was a mutual admiration and appreciation of beauty from both sides, there was something there, for sure.

I have enjoyed writing them so much and will continue to write them occasionally through the "Memories" from time to time, so please follow or favorite that section or just me, as an author. It would be greatly appreciated.

Once again, thank you for the people who always supported me, thank you to those of you who tell me you still read my stories (all of them) over and over again and are currently reading them for the third and fourth time, and thank you for boosting my confidence and love of writing all this time.

You will never be forgotten.

Now, how about a final review for the entire story, not just this posting? :)

Sincerely,

Patricia