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BOO. Yet, YAY at the same time. This is written beautifully.
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That's lovely. I am glad your life turned around; strange, or perhaps not, considering life, how many sad stories there are behind people's pen-names. I tend to think, however, that '' going through the mill '' does deepen our writing. I shall never forget an agent ripping me to shreds at age 21 for writing about things I clearly had no knowledge of. [ relationships, childbirth, death, fear, helplessness, despair, unrequited love etc ]. She told me to '' live '' and then to write from my own emotional experiences, and she was right. I found having life pummel me did allow me to [ hopefully ] write authentically about such matters. More authentically anyway! I definitely could not have chosen a name given to me by a boyfriend, as some-one saying, in a strong Glaswegian accent: '' What ya doin' hen? '' Did not inspire me. Hen - female fowl/chicken, don't ask me, he said it was just what Glaswegian's called women. >.< . Hên is * child * in Sindarin, but I'm no child so I could not have used that. And the rest of the names were not as sweet as yours. It's a lovely story and I hope it has a nice ending. How terrific to meet a Gentleman, a rare breed these days! Plus I like his idea of tea, strong and sweet, just the way I drink it.

Author's Response: Haha! yea, my nan calls me hen and shes glaswegian. I never question why though..seems best not to. I completely agree with you about living improving writing. And despite everything that happened i was glad to have gone through it at the end of it all. Thankyou for reading!

Hmm. An interesting story behind your screen name.

From the sounds of your pen name, I was expecting the writing level of an 11 year old.

My mistake: I've been pleasantly surprised.

NZ

Author's Response: Haha! I'm very glad to hear you're surprised. Thankyou for reading and even more so for reviewing.