All Comments on 'Going Back'

Well told and with a human touch you seldom see on these pages! 5*

Wonderful loving story. Wellington tolv.

It's so nice to have a full-on romantic story like this on these pages. Thank you so much for sharing it with us, and please write more like it.

Very, very well done -- five stars and again, my thanks.

A mature story in every sense of the word. This is just really, really good. Nothing quite like it on the whole site.

Must be something about age and the ability to enjoy and empathize with an all to familiar situations of loss and recovery. Young love is all fine and nice, But too often like a nova - burns too hot and then just becomes a black hole, Wisdom dose come with age and experience, And with that wisdom maybe an appreciation that love is more than just a hard-on and mindless body on body combat.

Thank you. Really....

please check the date of your second flashback; it pre-dates the first.

First time I've come across your work. I'll certainly read more. Thank you.

For all of the nice comments. I'm fixing the date issue.

Like your writing style!

I've fixed the flashback date issue raised earlier. I appreciate the positive comments, and hope you check out and enjoy my other stories.

Sounds like Vanessa was disappointed that David was with a new women.

you would find a companion story.

thanks for the memories.

Very touching story. Makes me wonder what I've missed at all of my own reunions

Nice story. San diego is ahead of Detroit. Trying to multi task. Forget about it. Good luck for summer story contest, is Literotic a rockin or what.

O like this story.

Sounds like Princeton folks' lives were more fun both as undergraduates and at reunions than ours . . .

(Harvard grad)

A strong story with real characters and a believable human plot. Thanks.

This story suffers from the same problem as The Lake House Lessons -- the story builds my involvement/attachment to one woman (Vanessa) and then pairs him with another (Sonia). The problem is made worse by what the Anonymous just before me mentioned, namely, the author's skillful character development, which enables me to "meet" his people. But, since the time was spent on "meeting" Vanessa, I was disappointed that the follow-through was not with Vanessa.

I easily give out 5 stars, but I'm so let down by the ending that I rated this 3 stars, even though the story up until the surprise ending was handily 5 stars.

I like school reunion stories, even though I do not care to attend my own (high school nor college).

Paul in Oklahoma

My 45th university anniversary is coming up next year. I think I will attend it for the first time. There were only 22 people in my graduating class in a very specific engineering field. Most of them moved far away after graduating. Some moved to other countries. I do remember a couple of university girls like Vanessa in other academic fields. They were stuck up bitches who wouldn’t give you the time of day!

Fantastic story !!!!

Fantastic story !!!!

I thought the ending made total sense. Also nice to see a story set in an Ivy League school where the author actually knows the setting.

I agree with Paul in Oklahoma, he was paired with Vanessa at the 30th and should have followed through with pairing Dave and Vanessa on the 35th.

This all seems very real to me. A 6.5 guy wanting a 10 girl. This reminds me of what one of Lit writers said, “never date more than two ratings, up or down if you want to have a successful relationship.” Too bad guys didn’t keep enough blood in their brains to SEE the situation clearly.

NOT THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT! Cheers to more 8 girls with all the boxes checked.

DazzyD

In hindsight, there wouldn’t have been a reunion in May 2020, I guess. But no one of us could imagine that in 2015.

Great story, loved the characters and that it didn’t fall into the fairy tale trap. I agree with DazzyD. Had a similar experience but the other way around. Glad I bailed out quickly from that.