DISCLAIMERS

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE: Due South's premise and characters are owned by Alliance Television and possibly by CBS. It/they were created by Paul Haggis. Maggie & Kara Davis and Riva are original characters.
EPISODES: Between Victoria's Secret and Letting Go. Apologies to die-hard fans who know that Victoria's Secret occurs, according to Fraser Sr., at just about the time when it's going to be Spring, and not all all just before Thanksgiving.
EPIGRAPHS:Taken from (Part One) the song "Possession," and (Part Two) "Hold On" by Sarah McLachlan from (what else?) her album, "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy," which, in both episodes of "Victoria's Secret" is all but the soundtrack.
I wrote this for myself and chrysophyta over the holiday. Originally it was an attempt to try and write like Fraser Sr.'s own journal entries. It kind of broke down, though, and became something else.
If you liked this, you have two people to thank; Alice in Stonyland, who wrote a Highlander: The Raven crossover, A Kind of Madness, that made me eager to watch Due South, and chrysophyta, who dutifully sent me tapes of the show my way each week via her TNT cable.
OTHER REFERENCES: For some reason, the character of Maggie just kept wanting to quote other sources. The quotation of Nora Ephron's is from her most-excellent novel Heartburn. Charles Simic's poem about the last Napoleonic soldier is from a collection of prose poems entitled, The World Doesn't End. Richard Rhodes is quoted from his essay that appears in the compilation text, The Literary Journalists. Down in the Valley is a traditional song/lullaby, it doesn't belong to anyone. You can find one recording of it on the album "Smoky Mountain Lullabies," from Brentwood Music. And finally, Enchanted April is a novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim.

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