One shot!

Thanks Amelia,

That passage does have multiple meanings, in addition to the ones that you mentioned, I used the odd chance of a tear hitting that paticular word to evoke an emotional moment.

Here is a passage from Soul Mates.

Once inside she closed and locked the door. She sat down at the desk and looked down at the diamond ring on her left hand as a tear landed on it. Quietly she said, “Goodbye Ed…”

In this part of the story Ed had been captured by the aliens and Virginia has assumed command of SHADO. She believes that the UFO that she just ordered to be destroyed was carrying Ed. This passage is at the very beginning of my first story and with it, I told the reader that Ginny was engaged to Ed.

I fixed the missing word, both here and on my original.

This story was inspired by a comment I read elsewhere describing Virginia as a sexually freed and active woman, as portrayed in the show. The only episode that would even come close to suggesting that trait is TMWCB and I'm sure that I would have remembered any adult situations. I have to wonder if there is an adult version of UFO running around that I haven't seen yet. Had we seen her paired up with a different guy in each episode than that opinion might hold more water. Not based on one episode.

I see Ginny to be in her mid to late thirties in the show, for reasons I described on another thread. That puts her a few years younger than my mother. In her age group, promiscuity was still frowned upon, even more so in the UK, and I don't see an intelligent woman acting that way. She would be smart enough to know better. I don't think I write her any different than she was portrayed in the series. But it requires insight and imagination to look beyond the obvious. But then, I've been her champion since I started writing.

I'm glad you enjoyed the story, it demended to be written.

I read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. The book has some intesresting insight into how we each process information.

It really wasn't all that difficult, I know how I would feel it I were being accused of doing something that I didn't do. Whether you are a man or a woman, the emotion is the same. The only difference is how we process and express the emotion, and that tends to be different between a man and a woman. (Walking on eggshells here.)

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There are cultural influences as well and those may be even stronger.

There are some great scenes in 'Courage Under Fire' - (if you haven't seen it, I won't give away the entire plot).

But, the Meg Ryan character is shot and under extreme stress the tears flow. The guys with her claim she can't handle the pain. Her response is (paraphrasing here) "Pain hell, having a baby hurts worse. This is stress!"

But the 'culture' of the 'macho guy' and the 'weak sister' is one of the driving factors of that film - IMHO.

Way back when (remember high school sex Ed?) it was always the captain of the football team who fainted during the childbirth film.

Always 

And in childbirth, it's not just the pain, it's the effort. How many guys could do the equivalent of sit-ups with a rep every few minutes for hours.

But to get back on track - I never saw Ginny's relationship with Craig OR Paul as having gotten to the 'jump into bed' phase. Paul seemed genuinely confused at Craig's possessiveness - not the response I would have expected if Paul and Ginny were sleeping together.

And Ginny's reaction to Craig's excessively forceful kiss - it always seemed to me she wasn't reacting to the force of the kiss so much, but that he was trying to go farther than she wanted and wouldn't take no for an answer.

I certainly wouldn't have labeled Ginny as promiscuous, and recognizing the double standard of the time, I doubt SHADO would have given her clearance if she jumped into bed with every pretty face she saw. 

And WE get 'yelled' at for writing things that don't mesh with what was on the screen.

I want HIS job. :

Thanks Normandie, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I saw Ginny as artistic, I portray her as a classcal pianist, and later on as an artist. The reason I made her journal entry sound so formal is along the same lines, she expressed herself quite consicely with the spoken word and I see her doing the same in her writing. That's what I was thinking when I wrote it.

BTW, it didn't take long for this one to end up in the crosshairs. A couple of new terms were invented.