Oh my gosh...the feels. My eyes are self-cleaning. Did someone cut an onion?

I have signed up to ff just to leave you a comment. This cut me so deeply it's overwhelming me. This story is just so real, so raw and passionate in a warped way. I can see it really playing out like this. Maybe it's because I've been through, done some this in my life, that I really feel this... maybe it's because I secretly adore celine and happy endings. Either way it was perfect. Thank you!

Would be nicer if the chapters were in chronological order

What the fuck what that?! ANDREA IS SUCH A FREAKING PANSY.

Oh my God. This was brillant.

This is a truly wonderful story which deserves FAR more reviews than it has been given! Thank you for weaving such a wonderful tale.

I'm crying like a baby here, beautiful story

this .. thing they have going on is... wow.

angst at its best... wow. i love your story

I've been delinquent in commenting on this, the conclusion. :(

Great closing to this story. It took the truce (as I see it) b/w them in the driveway at the house in France for Andrea to find the ability to stand firm in a requirement for an armistice - and the result (albeit 3 years later) appears to have been well worth the wait.

Admittedly, I was a little fuzzy on when the transition from what Andrea was thinking to what Miranda is thinking in the epilogue. As a simpleton, I need flashing neon lights sometimes...especially as my little grey cells are being toasted to a crisp at present.

But, that is neither here nor there...The wordless scene from the moments they lay eyes upon one another at the wedding up to their starting to dance - perfection. So vivid. Thank you for this wonderful story.

This is the 2nd time I have read this story, and I stilllove it. Every chapter just reveals new layers and intricaties; it still leaves me sad, but with a faint glimmer of hope...you write excellently, and I'm glad that it doesn't all of a sudden turn too sappy at the end. This is exactly how I think Miranda could be in her personal life. Brill; Respect! Xx

Interesting concept - a connection through an appreciation of color (and the ability to see into other people, beyond the usual presentation, that is, of other people). Hmmm. Well, I suppose it makes really good sense-the initial spark between them being something that cannot be easily explained to the outside world. (Major, major understatement.)

I am thinking there is a pivotal scene (for Miranda) somewhere between this moment and the one in 2008 (chapter 6, the one in which Pierre proposes). Because in this glimpse, I see how Andy first starts on her slippery slope of wanting Miranda, but willing to accept all the related rigamarole required of both of them in such a relationship. At this moment, though, it appears that Miranda is still treating her as those before her - predicting Andrea's every turn, etc...but at some point, I would think around the 2008 scene that causes Miranda to want to hold on to Andrea even as she encourages her to marry Pierre, etc, etc.

Like I should be ungrateful for what you have given/shown herein. Humble apologies.

And so we see that Andy has let down her mother as well. I suppose that makes sense-like a pebble hitting the water, the rippling effect of disappointment starts with herself, her mother, Pierre, the twins (in a fashion), and only near the end/begining do her actions, her choices extend their damaging waves to Miranda. All starting with a small stone - a desire to appease others, maintain calm. Ha! in so doing, she causes currents/tidal waves in so many lives. The road to he'll is paved with good intentions. ( Although, I suppose the Miranda/Andrea truce, collapsed on muddy earth as the rain from the resulting storm soaks them, isn't exactly Hell.)

Ah. Miranda is an evil woman. And Andrea proves how deeply cruel she can be - to Miranda, to Pierre (and his mother) and most of all, to herself. Such character insigts so deliciously revealed. Brava.