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FS for May 2012: Remember Me This Way

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Rose:
LMFAO thanks Reb!

My favorite thing to hear about this story is when people tell me it made them cry. I was going for tears but when I see that with some I got them, it's probably the biggest compliment ever. Especially since this was my first major tearjerker story.

FrickingKaos:
Lots of things made me bawl honestly. The ending had me in a puddle lol

Rose:
LOL awwww.

The ending I knew from the prologue. Like almost line for line. It's weird, I almost never know the ending that well, just a general idea. But with this one, I knew exactly how I wanted to write the epilogue. If it helps, I teared up as I wrote certain points of the story LOL.

rebellious_one:
As I've told you before, it felt sooo damn real, like I wanted to tweet Nick and be like, "Are you okay bro?" Lol.

Okay, my question... not sure if it was asked yet, cause I'm on my phone, lol, but you could've easily struck any of the members with this sad and unfortunate ailment. Out of all of them, Kevin probably would have been the easiest, given you could have ran with his age, but I felt there was a deeper reason why you chose Nick, besides it being really rare for someone his age to be struck with this ailment. So, why Nick? Who else would you have wrote this storyline for if you didn't choose Nick?

Rose:
Part of the reason I went with Nick was because of how he is right now. He's so happy, so vibrant and so full of life, I felt the tragedy would've been bigger, to cut it down. I liked the idea of using Nick to really take away things he's never done yet (marriage, kids). Not to mention as the youngest, it tapped into the "older brother" feelings of the others. This time they couldn't protect him, this time they couldn't fix it. He had to stand alone while the others supported him and watched.

If it had to be someone other than Nick, I probably would've used Kevin. So that I could take away the one who'd always been there for them. But it was too easy a choice, given his age. I wouldn't have used AJ, it just didn't fit, same with Howie. There's Brian I guess, but with his faith so steadfast I feel like the difficulty wouldn't have been as high.

The other thing is, though this is very much centered on Nick's relationships as everyone, I did use this to focus in on the Frick and Frack relationship. Brian's at the center of all of it. I test that friendship to the end. I've always been such a Nick/Brian girl and so putting that through the ringer was another reason I wanted it specifically to be Nick.

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