Dear Michael K.,

No need to apologize, really. If the analogy works for you -- Great! It just, shall we say, 'comes out the wrong way' for me? *BG* I thought it was very descriptive and funny. You should hear what women say (if they were to be really honest) when they're describing childbirth! Your own analogy has nothing on what I've heard come out of the mouths of some very proper 'ladies'.

For each person who writes, whether it be a song, a poem, or prose of some kind, the experience is totally different. None of us are born with a set of instructions, and the same holds true for the way we express our own personal 'human condition'. That's the beauty in it, don't you think? That's what makes it so much fun, and so intensely amazing!

-- Áine