Episode 715: "Written in My Own Heart's Blood" (SPOILERS!)
Here are my reactions to Episode 715 of the OUTLANDER TV series, titled "Written in My Own Heart's Blood". This was a terrific episode and I really enjoyed it!
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The episode opens with a montage of many different scenes from previous episodes, going all the way back to Season 1, depicting war, bloodshed, and death. I thought it was really well done, and I found it impossible to take my eyes off the screen for a moment for fear of missing something.
Claire's voiceover here is based on the book. The opening line, "Even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there," is the title of Chapter 82 of WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD.
A life that could be snatched away, thrown away, frittered on a battlefield ... How many men had died that way? And it didn’t stop, it didn’t get better ... This was an early war, for God’s sake. An endless chain of wars lay between my lives: the Revolution here, the Great War at the other end--and constant slaughter in between."War is inevitable, and death is, too." An ominous beginning to this episode!
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 118, "The Second Law of Thermodynamics". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
The title card shows Frank and a young Brianna in a museum, viewing a famous painting of Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth. Take a good look at the painting used in the title card! If you freeze the frame and look closely when they zoom in to the painting, you can see Jamie by the cannon and Claire treating the wounded. I loved that!
As the episode begins, Claire wakes in a tent in the Continental Army camp, with Jamie beside her. With the battle approaching, Jamie can't sleep. The dialogue here comes straight from MOHB chapter 65, "Mosquitoes". I like the way they combined it with Jamie's story of seeing his mother laid out in her coffin, from THE FIERY CROSS, chapter 85, "Hearthfire", which is one of my all-time favorites. Sam was wonderful in this scene! I love the way Jamie touches Claire's hair, with such tenderness.
“To see the years touch ye gives me joy, Sassenach,” he whispered, “--for it means that ye live.” He lifted his hand and let my hair fall slowly from his fingers, brushing my face, skimming my lips, floating soft and heavy on my neck and shoulders, lying like feathers at the tops of my breasts.Awwww!! I'm so glad they included that here. Jamie's love for Claire comes through more clearly in this episode than we've seen in a long time.
“Mo nighean donn,” he whispered, “mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart.”
“Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me, a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you.”
I lay on him, covered him, my skin, his bone, and still--still!--that fierce bright core of flesh to join us. I let my hair fall down around us both, and in the fire-shot cavern of its darkness, whispered back.
“Until we two be burned to ashes.”
(From THE FIERY CROSS by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 85, "Hearthfire". Copyright © 2001 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
The next morning, the Continental Army prepares for battle, mustering at Tennent Church, in New Jersey. As Jamie and Claire say their goodbyes, Jamie worries that he may never have a chance to speak with his son, to tell William that he loves him. (Notice the clear parallel to Roger, telling his own father that he loved him in Episode 713.)
"I love you," Claire says, very firmly, and they kiss. Jamie starts to walk back toward his troops, and suddenly comes back to Claire and says, "It willna be today, Sassenach."
He's referring to what he told Claire at the end of Episode 512: "When the day shall come, that we do part, if my last words are not ‘I love you’--ye’ll ken it was because I didna have time.”
As she watches him go, you can see Claire visibly steeling herself for the ordeal to come: not just the casualties, but the waiting, the uncertainty and fear for Jamie. She's probably also thinking of the last time he went to fight, at Saratoga, and came home with a badly wounded hand.
In the next scene, Jamie and Claire are outside at night, watching the stars together, possibly on the night before the battle. Most of the dialogue here comes from the book.
“Do you ever [...] see the ... the void. The abyss.” Speaking the words reopened the rent in my soul, and the cold wind came through. A shudder ran through me, in spite of the warmth of the air and Jamie’s body. “I mean--it’s always there, always yawning at your feet, but most people manage to ignore it, not think about it. I’ve mostly been able to. You have to, to do medicine.” I wiped my nose on my sleeve, having dropped my handkerchief. Jamie pulled a crumpled hankie out of his sleeve and handed it to me.Claire visibly pulls herself together, watches Jamie and his men march out of sight, and goes into Tennent Church, where the Continental Army has set up a field hospital.
“Ye dinna mean only death?” he asked. “Because I’ve seen that often enough. It hasna really scairt me since I was ten or so, though.” He glanced down at me and smiled. “And I doubt ye’re afraid of it, either. I’ve seen ye face it down a thousand times and more.”
“Facing something down doesn’t mean you aren’t afraid of it,” I said dryly. “Usually quite the opposite. And I know you know that.”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 118, "The Second Law of Thermodynamics". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
In the next scene, we return to Roger and Buck in 1739. This scene isn't in the book, but I thought it was really well done. Buck understands now that the ability to time-travel is passed down from one generation to the next, and he wants to know if his father was also a time-traveler.
There is an awkward pause, then Roger says, "I don't think your father was a time-traveler. But your mother [Geillis Duncan] was. Is."
Buck is stunned by this revelation, and then angry. "Why in the name of all that's holy would ye no tell me?!" Roger says he was afraid of Buck doing something that would "change the course of time."
Buck pounces on that with the skill of an experienced lawyer. "Then perhaps we should have left your own father to his fate." Good point!
Roger had the chance to speak to his father in Episode 711. Now Buck wants the same opportunity for himself. Just as in the book, he's a quick thinker, easily digesting the implications of what Roger has told him.
“My father,” Buck said thoughtfully, without actually answering. “From what he said when we met him at the MacLarens’ croft, I thought he maybe didna ken [Geillis] yet. But he was interested, ye could tell that.” He looked suddenly at Roger, a thought having struck him.Back in 1778, in the field hospital at Tennent Church, Claire meets the army surgeon in charge, Dr. Leckie. Claire is infuriated by his condescension and his lack of respect for her (badly needed) surgical skills, just because she is a woman. Dr. Leckie is every bit as obnoxious and infuriating as I imagined. The confrontation between Denzell and Dr. Leckie comes verbatim from MOHB chapter 74, "The Sort of Thing That Will Make a Man Sweat and Tremble". I thought they did a terrific job of portraying this bit from the book!
“D’ye think it was meeting us that made him--will make him,” he corrected, with a grimace, “go and find her?” He glanced down, then back up at Roger. “Would I not exist if we hadn’t come to find your wee lad, I mean?”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 104, "The Succubus of Cranesmuir". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
As Claire sets up her medical equipment outside, we hear her voice saying, "Something feels different this time," and suddenly we're back with Claire and Jamie outside their tent, on the night before the battle. Claire's comment about the feeling that "nothing you did, mattered" is a continuation of the same conversation from earlier in the episode. She's struggling to explain what she's feeling, overcome by a sense of great futility.
“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entropy. Death matters, at least sometimes.”In the triage tent, Claire instructs Rachel and the other women assisting her on the priority for treating the wounded. "Our 'Golden Hour' may end up being a 'Golden 15 Minutes'," Claire says wryly, echoing her thoughts in MOHB chapter 75, "The Cider Orchard".
“I ken that,” Jamie said softly, and took my hands in his; they were big, and battered, scarred and maimed. “It’s why a warrior doesna fear death so much. He has the hope--sometimes the certainty--that his death will matter.”
“What happens to me between now and then doesna matter to anyone.”
Those words swam out of nowhere and struck me in the pit of the stomach, so hard that I could barely breathe. He’d said that to me, from the bottom of despair, in the dungeon of Wentworth Prison, a lifetime ago. He’d bargained for my life then, with what he had--not his life, already forfeit, but his soul.
“It matters to me!” I’d said to him--and, against all odds, had ransomed that soul and brought him back.
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 118, "The Second Law of Thermodynamics". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
The scene between Claire and Rachel isn't in the book. It seems to be designed to remind viewers that Ian promised Rachel that he wouldn't kill anyone -- a difficult vow to keep, as a Mohawk!
And speaking of Ian.... The next scene, which is not in the book, features Ian and Lord John attempting to rescue William, who is being held prisoner in the Hessians' camp. Ian tries to talk the Hessian commander into releasing William, and when that fails, he asks to see William, who is brought out in chains, with a wooden stick between his jaws as a crude gag. It's barbaric and looks painful, and although Lord John's face reveals nothing, you can just imagine how he must be feeling, to see his son treated like this.
The Hessian officer is hostile and in no mood to set William free. "Let the bastard perish!" he says. One of the Hessians is about to shoot William, when Lord John whips out a pistol and shoots the man instead. A brief battle ensues; most of the Hessians are killed, and Ian holds their leader captive. Lord John frees William from his restraints, with obvious relief.
In the book, the circumstances are somewhat different, but Ian's actions at the end are similar:
“I give you back your life!” He rose off the Indian’s body, swaying and staring as though blind drunk himself, and hurled the knife into the darkness--causing considerable consternation and not a little cursing among those in whose direction he’d hurled it.Back at Tennent Church, Claire is overseeing the triage of wounded soldiers coming into the field hospital. She brings a man with a chest wound into the church, and Dr. Leckie immediately starts making annoying comments again. I was delighted to see that they included my favorite Leckie quote:
[The Abenaki] sat up, very slowly, hands shaking as they pressed a fold of his shirt to the shallow cut across his throat, and said, in an almost conversational tone, “You will regret that, Mohawk.”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 84, "Nightfall". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
He rounded on me, indignant and astonished.In the next scene, the Hessian captain is walking through the woods when Ian suddenly jumps out and kills him. "You were right," Ian says to the man. "I would have regretted it."
“Are you contradicting me?”
“Well, yes,” I said, rather mildly. “You’re wrong. You want to have a good look in his left ear. It’s—”
“I, madam, am a diplomate of the Medical College of Philadelphia!”
“I congratulate you,” I said, beginning to be provoked. “You’re still wrong.”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 61, "A Viscous Three-Way". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
So in the end, Ian could not abide by Rachel's Quaker principles of non-violence. His Mohawk and Highland warrior instincts were too strong. I thought Ian's motives here were easier to understand than in the book. He killed the man who had captured and threatened the life of his cousin, William.
The next scene, in which Lord John and William finally have a chance to talk, is excellent, one of my favorites in this episode! It's based on MOHB chapter 80, but I thought having William confront Lord John directly (rather than talking with his brother Hal) made the conflicts and the dramatic tension much more intense.
“Did John tell you?”I liked this exchange very much:
“No, he bloody didn’t!” Blood surged to William’s face, making his head throb with a fierce suddenness that made him dizzy. “If I hadn’t come face-to-face with the--the fellow, I don’t suppose he’d ever have told me!”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 80, "Pater Noster". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
"William? William who? Ransom? Ellesmere? Fraser?! It is certainly not Grey. You taught me to bear my name in its entirety with pride. 'A reputation is all a man ever really has.' That's what you told me. Who in God's name am I?"
"You are my son. You are my son!"
The conversation turns to Jamie Fraser, and the next bit is straight from the book:
“You might have done worse,” his uncle observed after a moment. “In the way of sires, I mean.”Lord John calls Jamie "one of the best men I've ever met", but William stubbornly refuses to acknowledge any of Jamie's good qualities.
“Oh, really?” William said coldly.
“Granted, he is a Scot,” the duke said judiciously.
“And a traitor.”
“And a traitor,” Hal agreed. “Damned fine swordsman, though. Knows his horses.”
“He was a fucking groom, for God’s sake! Of course he knows horses!” Fresh outrage made William jerk upright again, despite the thunder in his temples. “What am I bloody going to do?!”
His uncle sighed deeply and put the cork back in the flask.
“Advice? You’re too old to be given it and too young to take it.”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 80, "Pater Noster". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
"He's a traitor. I would never betray my king or my country."
"Never" is not a word to be trifled with, William. Be careful with it. Things are not always so straightforward."
Just a terrific scene, well-written and well-acted!
Meanwhile, back in 1739, Roger and Buck have arrived at Lallybroch, greeted by Jamie's father, Brian Fraser. Later, in the laird's study, Roger writes a letter to Bree.
"Dear Bree, Something went wrong. I didn't make it to where I was supposed to go."
Roger seals his letter to Bree with red wax and places the letter carefully in the secret compartment in the desk that he learned about in Episode 709, "Unfinished Business".
Meanwhile, in the same laird's study at Lallybroch in 1980, Brianna takes a hardcover book from the shelf. It turns out to be THE SOUL OF A REBEL, by none other than Franklin W. Randall, Bree's father. (Those of you who have read GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE will recall the significance of this book!) The author's photo shows Frank as we last saw him in the 1960s. I thought that was a nice touch. As far as I know, it's the first time the show has referred to anything from BEES, even indirectly.
Bree writes her own note to Roger. She puts it in the desk, and as she shuts the top drawer, something falls out of the secret compartment. It's Roger's letter from 1739!
The very first words made her drop the letter as though it were on fire.In discussions on the Compuserve Books and Writers Community (now TheLitForum) after MOHB came out, we started jokingly calling that desk "the Lallybroch Post Office". The idea of sending letters across centuries of time sounds preposterous, but this was Roger's only chance to tell Bree what had happened to him. Amazing that it actually worked!
November 15, 1739
She snatched it back up. Lest she somehow miss it, he’d underlined 1739.
“How in bloody hell did you--” she said aloud, and clapped a hand over her mouth, where she kept it as she read the rest.
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 95, "The Body Electric". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
The next scene, between William and Jane's sister Fanny, comes directly from the book. I thought the girl playing Fanny did a terrific job!
"Wiyum!” It was Fanny, Jane’s sister, alone, daubed with mud, and in a state of complete hysteria. She’d catapulted into his arms; he gripped her firmly, holding her lest she fly to pieces, which she looked very like doing.It turns out that her sister Jane has been arrested for the murder of Captain Harkness!
“Frances. Frances! It’s all right; I’m here. What’s happened? Where’s Jane?”
At her sister’s name, she gave a wail that made his blood go cold and buried her face in his chest. He patted her back and, this failing to help, then shook her a little.
“Frances! Pull yourself together. Sweetheart,” he added more gently, seeing her swimming, red-rimmed eyes and swollen face. She’d been weeping for a long time. “Tell me what’s happened, so I can help you.”
“You can’t,” she blubbered, and thumped her forehead hard against his chest, several times. “You can’t, you can’t, nobody can, you can’t!”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 132, "Will O' The Wisp". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
Back in 1739, Roger and Buck have some time at Lallybroch to talk. Buck says he's not a very good person, because of what he did to his wife, Morag. He fills Roger in on the details of his life before he time-traveled. It's rather a long story, taken straight from the book, but the point of the story is this: Buck feels he doesn't have much to go back to, but he might be able to help Roger, and he's willing to try, even though it means risking his life.
“Your Jem,” Roger said softly. “You do know where he is, at least. When, I mean.” The question was clear: if Buck was willing to risk the stones again, why would he not do it in search of his own family, rather than to carry a message to Bree?Wow! When I first read the book, that took my breath away. My thought at the time was, "So this is where Buck redeems himself" for his role in getting Roger hanged.
“Ye’re all mine, aren’t ye?” Buck said gruffly. “My blood. My ... sons.”
[....]
“So ye see,” he said. “If I go back and tell your wife what’s to do--and, with luck, come back to tell you--it’s maybe the one good thing I could do. For my family--for yours.”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 105, "No a Very Good Person". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
In the next scene, Bree, Jem, and Mandy are at Craigh na Dun in 1980, dressed in 18th-century clothing, preparing to go through the stones. Mandy is carrying Esmeralda, her favorite doll, with bright red yarn hair. Bree gives each of them a gemstone to hold. "Remember, think of Daddy!"
What happens next comes straight from the book:
Mandy, little fist clutching her emerald, had turned toward the biggest of the standing stones. Her mouth drooped open for a moment, and then suddenly her face brightened as though someone had lit a candle inside her.Yikes!!
“Daddy!” she shrieked, and, yanking her hand out of Brianna’s, raced directly toward the cleft stone--and into it.
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 105, "No a Very Good Person". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
Meanwhile, in 1778, the call goes out from the sentries: "The Redcoats are coming!" At Tennent Church, they are evacuating all of the patients from the field hospital, but Claire insists on staying behind to tend to a few seriously wounded patients who can't be moved. Rachel tries to persuade her to evacuate, to no avail, and Rachel leaves with Denzell. Finally only Dr. Leckie is left. When he, too, fails to convince Claire to leave for her own safety, Dr. Leckie abruptly changes his mind about her, in a brief exchange that isn't in the book.
"You're a bloody good surgeon. I can see that."
"Thank you for saying that, but like you, I have an obligation to these men, and I will not leave them here to die!"
"Well, then, good luck to you, DOCTOR Fraser."
Wow! I really wasn't expecting Dr. Leckie to change his attitude like that, but I'm glad to see it!
In the next scene, Jamie receives word from a young messenger that the Redcoats have been spotted near Tennent Church, where Claire is! Jamie orders his men to move out in that direction. Meanwhile, Claire is watching a long line of British infantry passing by the church. Suddenly Jamie's aide, Lt. Bixby, stumbles in with a cut on his head that needs tending. He fills her in on what has been happening on the battlefield. General Lee has been relieved of command.
Meanwhile, Jamie has come in sight of Tennent Church, only a few yards away from Claire. A large number of Redcoats are marching past, and some of the soldiers on both sides start shouting insults at one another. Suddenly someone fires a musket, and the other side fires back, and....
A sledgehammer hit me in the side, making me jerk, the needle dropping from my hands. I didn’t feel myself fall but was lying on the ground, black and white spots flashing round me, a sense of intense numbness radiating from my right side. I smelled damp earth and warm grass and sycamore leaves, pungent and comforting.This is just as terrifying to watch on screen as it was to read about. Absolutely riveting, suspenseful, emotionally intense. I think they did a wonderful job bringing this whole sequence to life on TV! But I was particularly impressed with Jamie's reactions here, exactly what I had always imagined from the book.
Shock, I thought dimly, and opened my mouth, but nothing but a dry click came out of my throat. What … The numbness of the impact began to lessen, and I realized that I had curled into a ball, my forearm pressed by reflex over my abdomen. I smelled burning, and fresh blood, very fresh. I’ve been shot, then. “Sassenach!” I heard Jamie’s bellow over the roaring in my ears. He sounded far off, but I heard the terror in his voice clearly.
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 81, "Among the Tombstones". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
The look on Jamie's face as he crouches there, putting pressure on the wound, totally alone, is just heartbreaking. He's clearly terrified. Fortunately Lt. Bixby sees what's happened and helps him get Claire into the church. Dr. Leckie is there, but he has no treatment to offer.
"I'm sorry," Leckie says,"but the truth is, there is nothing to be done."
NO!!!!
“The bleeding’s mostly stopped--for now,” he said to Jamie. “I’ll come back when I can.” He swallowed and looked directly at Claire’s face, wiping his chin on his sleeve. “Good luck to you, ma’am.”I loved the way Jamie shouted those words at the top of his lungs. And thank God, Claire's talking!
And with that, he simply strode off toward the open doors of the church, not looking back. Jamie felt such a rush of fury that he would have gone after the man and dragged him back, could he have left Claire’s side. He’d left--just left her, the bastard! Alone, helpless!
“May the devil eat your soul and salt it well first, you whore!” he shouted in Gàidhlig after the vanished surgeon. Overcome by fright and the sheer rage of helplessness, he dropped to his knees beside his wife and pounded a fist blindly on the ground.
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 82, "Even People Who Want to Go to Heaven Don't Want to Die to Get There". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
Jamie calls for water, but Claire says no. If the intestine is perforated, drinking anything would kill her.
"Please, God, don't let it be now!" Jamie prays. Suddenly the young messenger boy appears, with a message for General Fraser. General Lee has summoned him. Jamie says, "I will not leave!"
The argument swirls around Claire, but she's no longer listening. She's lost in a memory of that night under the stars with Jamie.
“Is it not a void there?” he said quietly, still looking up. “And yet we’re no afraid to look.”Awwwww! I love that last line.
“There are lights,” I said. “It makes a difference.” My voice was hoarse, and I swallowed. “Though I suppose even the stars are burning out, according to the Second Law.”
“Mmphm. Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like,” he said, “but God made hope. The stars willna burn out.” He turned and, cupping my chin, kissed me gently. “And nor will we.”
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 118, "The Second Law of Thermodynamics". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
Dimly, Claire hears voices. Someone talking about treason. Then Jamie's voice saying, "Then they'll shoot me where I stand, for I will not leave her side!" (Another of my favorite lines from this part of the book.)
Jamie orders the messenger boy to remove his coat and shirt. He glances at his hands, covered with Claire's blood, then dips a finger in the pool of blood and writes a "letter of resignation" in blood on the boy's back, signing it "J. Fraser".
"Go and show that to General Lee," he orders. Then he tells his lieutenant to find Denzell Hunter.
Then Jamie leans close to Claire and says, "I love you, Sassenach. The stars willna burn out, and nor will we."
In the next scene, Jamie is praying over Claire's unconscious form, begging God not to send the angels for her. "I will not let them take her! I will not!" Suddenly Denzell bursts in with Rachel, and all Jamie can do is look up at the doctor, pleading, "Save her!"
Denzell thinks there's damage to her liver. He's preparing to operate when Rachel comes in, announcing that the Marquis de La Fayette's aide has sent some food for her -- including more of the Roquefort cheese we saw in last week's episode! This is a stroke of pure luck, because Roquefort contains penicillium, the active ingredient in penicillin! Finally, a small ray of hope.
Notice Denny putting on a mask before beginning the surgery. Claire taught him well.
“Don’t leave me, Claire,” Jamie whispered, very close to my ear. “This time, I’ll beg. Dinna go from me. Please.” I could feel the warmth of his face, see the glow of his breath on my cheek, though my eyes were closed.As the operation begins, Claire's vision dims, until all she can see is that single bright star, still burning in the night sky. A visual metaphor for that repeated line, "The stars willna burn out, and nor will we." I love that!
“I won’t,” I said--or thought I said--and went. My last clear thought was that I’d forgotten to tell him not to marry a fool.
(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 83, "Sundown". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
And with that, the episode ends.
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Thankyou Karen, for another fabulous review, with the relevant “word” from Diana.
With gratitude,
Jill Kennedy