So I just discovered that (for reasonable reasons, namely I honestly thought I'd let everyone know across the various sites) I didn't update here six years ago to let people know what happened.
It's not good.
August of 2016, Vel was diagnosed with Stage IV throat cancer. She was 44. This _doesn't happen_, to the point it was literally impossible to get survival statistics.
She didn't beat the odds.
March 22, 2017, my daughter called me downstairs. CPR was ineffective. Not that it mattered. I knew the instant I saw her... but I tried anyway.
No. None of our stories will be finished, with the _possible_ exception of Jason and Kylie. It's the one story I possibly _could_ finish, except that every time I've tried over the last six years I've ended up in tears.
I'm sorry.