Well, I do know that the crisis would have happened sooner or later regardless. I guess it just was so "struck" with the impact of "feeling" it, how that must have felt for her, dangling on the edge of crisis mode.

I have a very, very good visual memory, I think I know the exact day I didn't see her "hope" expression.

I usually get things intellectually first and foremost, so when the emotional part hits...it's a pon farr like thing. Emotional 2X4 (or 6)

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm