That was very sad, and very happy, and extremely well done. Neal's payche is a fascinating thing to explore, and I loved your take on it. :)

EXCELLENT! Really beautiful! Thank you!

This is one of my favorite White Collar fics ever-I just started rewatching the series, and had to come back and find it. Your writing is beautiful, and I kind of like the backstory you built for him better than the canon one :) It's just the right length for the content, too. Thank you for writing it!

Stunning, deeply moving.
The cleanness and Neals love (need?) for beautiful clothes is explained beautifully, and even though some of his backstory got jossed, this is very good and believable. You are a master of short, poignant scenes that convey so much.

Great story. So touching and captures the characters so well. Wish it was longer!

Omg I'm sobbing. I'm sobbing I'm sobbing

This was really beautiful, written from an amazing perspective. Great writing too, I loved how you treated the sentence with bread twice with two different situations - it really tied the story together

I've been looking for something like this for a very long time. It is going to the top of my favorite fics list... Thank you so much for writing that. It painted as good a picture as Neal can, and it was beautiful.

I-I think I'm going to cry now because this is just so beautifully crafted and well written. God, thank you for this, and please do continue writing!

Wow. This was difficult. But it ends with hope. Very well written, like prose, in a passage of time. To write that Neal was grateful for moments of love and generosity after all he had lost and how he hurt was lovely. Thanks for the hope.

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

I love your style in this here, it is so poetic and moving. brilliant and deep.

I think I've read this about five times now.

Every once in a while I just get the urge to reading this art again... Even if it means spending fifteen minutes searching for it. That's how much I love reading this story.

I share an interest in Neal's character. He's highly complex, and a very strange breed of anti-hero. In some ways he's worse than your average ruthless hero, because he actually is a criminal, and doesn't make any apologies for it. His talents also lie in the realm of manipulation and duplicitous behavior. I think this is worse because a violent man can only kill you. A con man can make one do things they don't want to, things they would never normally consider. I personally think the second is much scarier.

Neal is, quite intentionally, a very difficult character to understand. In some ways the show set us up to be Peter: trying to understand Neal from snippets of information and shadows of his behavior. Of course, we got to see much more than shadows of Neal, but that only lets us realize that he"s more of an enigma than anything else. This explanation you have-that he feels dirty inside and so covets an ivory facade outside-is one of the best I've seen. Good work.

Awww. This was amazing. Great job :D