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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eluvan" data-source="post: 1851982" data-attributes="member: 24812">The better man won - well done RangerWickett! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  For my part, I'm very happy with all the comments on my story. I'm glad that (for the most part) you liked my style, and I am utterly unsurprised that the consensus seems to be that the story itself was a little stretched and uninspired in places, since I had pretty severe writers block and pretty much just forced that one out. Considering how unsatisfied I was with it at the time, I'm just glad that there were things about it you enjoyed.  For the record; it was not for love of Olivia exactly that Daniel returned the brooch and killed himself (yeah, that wasnt quite clear either was it?). It was more that the preicous moments he shared with her, juxtaposed so harshly with the realisation that he had stolen from her in order to pay for drugs, had jolted him into a self-examination that led him to give up his life style (and his life). I know that should have been more fully explored, the only reason it wasn't was because of the time constraints I gave myself by not even starting to write it until about twelve hours before the deadline.  So... yeah. I'll be watching the future rounds with interest, and rooting for you RangerWickett!</blockquote>

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