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Mrs. D. is always happy to hear from authors about her little reviews, and here is what M. H. Herlong had to say about Mrs. D.’s review of The Great Wide Sea in a private and personal email communication which Mrs. D. will now share with the planet: (Mrs. D. believes privacy is overrated, unless it involves her own…)

I DID enjoy the review.  In fact, I loved it.  I was especially pleased to read your discussion of Dad’s coping problems and your comment that we all need to learn to forgive.  I enjoyed your comment about your own sailing misadventure.  You might be interested to know that when the cover of the book was first prepared, Chrysalis was portrayed as a ketch.  I explained that this was like writing a book about a thoroughbred and putting an Clydesdale on the cover.  You might also be interested to know that I know that the moment depicted on the cover is one that no sailor would allow himself to get into and that no one could survive.  Sails up in that kind of weather?!?  No way!  Sailing INTO that kind of wave?!?  Impossible!  Still it makes for an extremely dramatic painting.

Having relinquished Ben, Dylan, and Gerry to the world, it is wonderful to hear when they are well received.

- M. H. Herlong, in a private and personal email to Mrs. D.

Mrs. D. is grateful that M. H. Herlong (may we call you “M.”?) graciously declined to point out the error in Mrs. D.’s review, where she referred to the sailboat Chrysalis as a “yacht” – it was, of course, a sloop, as Mrs. D. just learned from the author’s website.  Mrs. D., wise and knowledgeable as she is, is not too old to learn new things, and neither, dear readers, are you.

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