Thanks so much, Lovely, and thank you for publishing so quickly. I saw lots of comments from people wanting MORE ASAP (a beautiful surprise!) and I appreciate you getting it through the queue with such speed.

Thank you, too, for your kind comments about this story, and for allowing yourself to change your view of snakes.

I have lost a lot of pets in my life and have easily been moved to tears in thinking of them in the first months or even a year or so after losing them - but this is now nearly 12 years and every time I think of Bob, I'm in pieces. Looking at that little face...thinking about it - I'm done. In pieces. Can't believe how deeply that little sweetheart touched my soul. 💝