Epilogue:

Well we have reached the end of the story and I would like to personally thank everyone who has taken the time to read my story and a VERY special thank you to the people who actually save the story under their favorites! I never thought that would happen! So it made me very happy to read your comments and to fix my mistakes that were pointed out (I now know the difference between 'does' and 'dose').

I ran into a good number of problems while writing the story. The first and for most was trying to give a real personality to Mary and the other people in the village. As we all know in the game, no one in really that complex. So to make an interesting story, I had to make her an interesting person with her own memories, thoughts, and feelings of self-worth. It was a challenge, but a fun one.

Another problem I ran into was telling a story from only one person's point of view. I was toying around with the idea of having someone else find the diary back when Mary was still writing in it. Gray, Jack, and even the Harvest Goddess came to mind, but there was really no way I could make a good impact on that situation because of the first person perspective.

When I started writing this story, I only had basic idea of how it would go. I really wanted a Jack/ Mary romance story, but I felt as though it was done before, maybe with different girls and boys, but the story was still there, I tried to think of what I could do different. The idea came to me to set it as a story because of Mary's love of books. I got the idea in one of those 'Wouldn't it be funny if-' sort of ways. So I used the son from the game and the story became a diary.

I think the most interesting thing about this tale is that fact that there are actually two separate stories happening at once. On one had there's Mary, trying discover who she is and what she wants, and Leo who's trying to recover from the sudden loss in his life and figure out what this means for his future. The story ends in kind of sickly-sweet way. There was no real happy ending I could give since the story was so centered around death.

My love for Harvest Moon came when my mom rented the first HM game for me back on the SNES. I loved it and rented it a million times after until someone stole the game from the store. Soon after I bought it and almost every HM game after it. For those of you who don't know, the festivals, characters, and town was centered around Harvest Moon: Back to Nature for the PS1. This has to be my favorite out of the series. Mary has been my favorite girl since the beginning, though I'm not sure why. I suppose I'm just a sucker for shy girls with black hair and glasses.

I suppose I should make that last statement sounds less creepy by stating that I AM a guy, in case some of you were wondering (or cared.)

Again I would like to thank everyone who read my tale and who reviewed it. I hope you all enjoyed what you saw and will continue to support any more work I will post on this sight, but you might want to keep an eye out. There may be another HM story, maybe not. I'll be all over the Video Game sub-section so I'd love any kind words you have to say.

Finally, I would like to wish luck to everyone else out there who is writing their own stories. I'll try my best to read and review your own works, just as kindly as you did to mine. Good luck in whatever you do and remember: Chicks DIG Farmers!

-Kyle Vincent-