A lovely yarn. Hope you didn't face misfortune that caused you to abandon this story. Stay well!

I am very happy to see that many people still like this story. I just really liked the characters so much that I loved writing about them. I hope many of you are writing your own versions of Anne's tales also. Thank you everyone for the nice comments.

Some of you are pretty funny. I know editing errors are like speed bumps. It is just with so much dialog? I have already explained it just doesn't get much better. This is such an old story that I do not see myself editing it anytime soon in the near future. I know some of the wrong speech is on purpose. I will write more the way people will talk. Which doesn't always translate into proper English. Though definitely some errors are just my own peculiarities. Sorry but I am really into writing other types of stories right now. I know, even I find it strange now some of the words I liked to capitalize and my love of commas. I wondered because I have asthma that my speaking pattern has more pauses then most people have? Apparently so. Spellcheck unfortunately wasn't very helpful either.

Chapter sizes really depended on how often I was able to post many years ago. Some chapters are really very long. Had I been able to just write out the entire story, type and then break it down as real authors do it would be easier to read. Definitely.

Of course in a 20,000 word story it would be much easier to read without the errors. You would be amazed at how many I did catch in the past and still missed quite a few. I had quite a few distractions in my home when I was writing this story so it was more amazing that it even got posted at all. Now I have grandchildren around to distract me and work to do as well.

I am a bit disappointed that I didn't save more of my previous Anne stories from the past. I have changed and upgraded computers so many times through the years. The very old chapters from the Anne of Green Gables website were saved on floppy discs that won't work with newer computers. I actually still have a lot of those stories still in notebooks. Someday, I might re-type them so I can share.

I did look up hockey and it was played in Canada, that was actually recorded, starting around 1875. Which is probably a little bit later then when Anne's story was told? The first book was published in 1908. Not really sure exactly what years LMM choose but close enough. That is when people started writing about hockey in Canada according to Wiki. It could have very well been played by children and adults well before it was ever put pen to paper. I have no doubts, being once a kid and knowing how we made up games that it was probably played before that date in various forms. I choose it because it is a popular Winter sport. Farming kids rarely had any free time at all during the rest of the year to play. And ice skating was mentioned in the books.

When Anne's story actually started out life on Prince Edward Island was not so destitute. The family Anne came from became extremely impoverished because of the fathers ill health and finally his passing on. Which left Anne's caretakers too poor to take care of her and thus she was sent to an orphanage. It wasn't until a financial crash that happened years later that brought hard times to Prince Edward Island. This is mentioned in the book. The Cuthbert's weren't as a wealthy as Diana's family was but because they previously had no children to support they didn't do too badly when Anne first joined their family. It was finally Matthew's and Marilla's ailing health that also added to their financial difficulties. Leading Anne to take on a teaching job to help pay for her further education.

Anne did suffer some at first living with the Cuthbert's, who were expecting a boy and not a girl, from a serious lack of wardrobe in the beginning of her story. That was more because she was adopted by two old farmers who were not much into currant fashion trends. It isn't until Mrs. Lynde scolded Marilla about Anne's lack of proper clothing that things did improve for her. Mrs. Lynde, being the mother of so many children of her own and a lot more interested in the social status of families overall had started to even make clothing for Anne because she was the better seamstress. Eventually Anne can make her own clothes as she gains more experience.

I also gave this story a very silly title to emphasize that it isn't going to be exactly the way you would read it if LMM wrote it. That would be sillier still to just re-write LMM story. This story was meant to be something different.

I actually did write a lot more for this story. That has never been typed. Two stories that I really enjoyed writing, Anne and Gil and that silly story that was really absurd that I wrote with one of my son's Stephen I do miss.

I really am sorry that I haven't added anything to this story. In the future I might be able to find someone to type up more of it but right now I want to catch up with my other stories.

I really am happy that so many people have enjoyed this story. I too really loved the Anne books. Sadly I felt that LMM own life had a negative effect on some of her later Anne stories. Which is why I was so compelled to try to carry the more positive mood she once wrote with more in her earlier writing. And LMM characters have a rare sense of realism that appealed to me. She often addressed difficult social issues that most writers choose to avoid. Which makes their stories for me boring.

I have been very sad about our Jonathan Crombie. Honestly I never had a crush on Jonathan. The real man didn't really fit into the Gilbert Blythe mold to me. He's an actor. I didn't want to hurt his self-esteem any and I did start to wonder if he was taking some of these stories too seriously. We never spoke about them.

I tried to support his work more because he really did seem like he needed more people in his life who really did appreciate him as an actor. He did a great job portraying the character in the movie. But remember I didn't even read Anne's stories until I was an adult so I wouldn't make that same association I know many other fans did with him. I got to know him some and he was a very nice person. He was a great performer and I know I am very fortunate to have been able to see so much of his stage work before he passed away. I did become disappointed eventually though because he did start to project the idea that only people infatuated with him were suppose to enjoy his work? It did get old. It did start to come off as rather immature. I probably should have lied and said I was gay just so he didn't keep bringing that up. It really deflated his own credibility some. Though he had been working on the road and that was a challenge I understand. I said I would come to see this show or that one because I wanted to boost his confidence. Megan was doing such great work and I felt Jonathan too deserved to have more work that was worthy of his acting skills. Knowing that he really loved living in New York and he was doing what he really loved to do. That once he came to America he was offered many good roles to play that at least made me feel some of my efforts to try to encourage him to branch out more were not in vain. I really wanted fans to keep supporting his new work so that he would have more opportunities since I knew so many of his fans also enjoyed his work as well. Many of his fans got to meet him too and thought that was really great.

I still feel a great loss because we still have no movies based more of LMM writing based on Anne's college years. I loved all of her College friends and all of the fun things that they did together. I even enjoyed the competition between Anne's potential boyfriends that was skipped almost entirely in the second Anne movie. I liked the movie but it wasn't the story I really wanted to watch.

Knowing that Megan and Jonathan never got the opportunity to play those parts will always be a missing piece in the story of my life.

I hope fans are enjoying Megan Follows role as Queen Catherine in Reign right now. She really seems to be enjoying her work and she is such a great actress. Seeing her play a feisty queen is entertaining and a character she plays very well. Ms. Follows is a delightful person. I've seen her also on stage a couple of times and she really is as wonderful as you imagine her to be.

please continue

I'm a bit confused: if Anne has been living with Marilla, then why doesn't she know Gilbert and all the rest from her days at school? Regardless, I'm enjoying this so far.

Hockey has not been invented yet.

Hi there! Please, please, please continue this story. I cant understand why you haven't. It's so marvellous and romantic and leaves me in such suspense. Please continue this work of art! I desperately need to see Anne and Gilbert get together! Please! Why, you've hinted at so much but stopped right when things are getting interesting. There's the winter ball, Gil teaching Anne hockey, the two skating together...PLEASE don't let me down. This really is my favourite fic. Please write more.

Awesome...best book ever, i give an LOL to the part when Gilbert's father teases him about Anne Shirley being on the phone.

This was by far my favourite chapter. So much sexual tension between them. Weirdly romantic. I love Gilbert in this fanfic. He's so charismatic! :)

Its "helmet", not "helmut". And stop altering between past and present tense so often, would you?

This is enchanting! I love to readthe rest since I'm a big fan of Anne and everything wout her..
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I have been reading this story since September 2011 and I just finished moments ago. It was a wonderful story but I wish it didn't end like that. I was expecting it to be more complete. Anyways, good job for what you have written. I will try to strive to this standard of creativity and length in my stories.

You have some good ideas and write quite well. There were no Dens in Avonlea. The houses were small and people congregated in the kitchen. The parlor was only for special should review punctuation and sentence structure for capitalize many words that do not require capitalization. Re-write and write tight.

A very good peice of work. Watch out for spelling and punctuation

This story is perfect, in the style of the original. I could just imagine all the characters letting the scene unroll.

Thank you so much for sharing your story! Though it has been some time since your last update, I sincerely hope you have not abandoned this story... I adore it! I admit, it took me quite awhile to get through it, but it was most definitely worth it. Your Gilbert is playful and stubborn, a rather likable fellow for a suitor in this interesting rendition of AoGG.

I love your Anne as well. She's sensible and most definitely in character, being somewhat blind to Gilbert and the reality of his intentions. I hope you update soon, as I am eager to experience the winter carnival and the Ball in particular - a sprig of mistletoe, or perhaps the opportunity to dance with Anne might give Gilbert the leverage he needs to win her heart!

I look forward to the next installment (provided there is one, of course) and hope you have enough time to provide one for us. Thanks again for sharing!