Romance vs Relics The Adventures of Nellie Blye

[Tina ☺]

It's Up! It looks to me like some of the pics area little blotchy, though. Not too bad, I hope, and at least y'all get to read it.

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[holleyberry]

YaY!!! Off to read it!!!

[Tina ☺]

*bites nails*

[Aussie Karima]

;D OK, I fail with words, to convey, just how much I love this story, that eventually bounced its way out of the confines of your brain! At least now your head will not explode! I will miss this when it ends!

~ Tina, you did some amazing Photoshoping in there, & I would list them all but the list is long!Thank you Tina, you humble me!

[Tina ☺]

Awww, thanks Karima! I'm glad you liked it! ;D

Now, I'm wondering why Holley didn't come back and comment. Does she hate it?

[holleyberry]

ARGH!!!! TINA!!!!

*calms down*

WOW! What a great chapter. You did such a GREAT job with this one.

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Poor Gustav. To have grown up in such a horrible environment and abandoned like that. You almost feel sorry that it ended the way it did. I am glad Ho Sung got to Nellie in time.

Ho Sung's story may well bring some of us around, but if Youssef is alive (WHICH HE BETTER BE!!!) which will she pick, if any?

[Tina ☺]

Glad you liked it, Holley... phew! *wipes brow* lol

Well, it could go either way, you know. I've been flipping both scenarios around in my head, trying to pick the best option.

It will likely take me a bit longer to get chapter 21 up because I haven't even begun on it.

[jillyson]

OMG, Tina!!!
Are you KIDDING me??? Are you KIDDING ME?
You get your happy butt right back to that computer and start typing RIGHT NOW!!!

*deep breaths...

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OK. I'm working thru my stress. Thank GOD I didn't read this at work, or I wouldn't have gotten another thing done! Lol!

I'm glad Gustav the psycho got his! I'm going to board a plane to Egypt and kick his cold dead body if Youssef dies! I totally get the "prostitute" outfit now - some yucky mommy issues for sure!

I'm glad HS showed up and saved her, but I'm more Team Youssef now than ever! HS can be their best man at the wedding. Lol!

Holy cow...after that chapter, I'm going to need a sedative!

For the love of GOD...SAVE HIM!!!!

I wanted to mention the wonderful photoshopping, but I can't believe I got to see his sweet naked butt for THIS reason!!! (still, even bleeding to death, it was sweet! That's so very, very wrong...)

You see what you've done to me???
For the love of GOD...SAVE HIM!!!!

[joandsarah]

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Do you mind if I ditto Shadey who left the comment on LJ. Actually (nothing to do with you) I've gone and got another dizzy spell, from my PH condition so I can hardly type right now) I'm still but as you know. really, really not my cup of tea. But very well written, I think you did an excellent job. And Yuosef better live and as Jilly said get you butt back in the writing chair woman!

[Tina ☺]

@jill...

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shame on you going on about Youssef's butt that way! LOL I created his butt, you know. I took a pic of him napping on the bed. Then I took a pic of the empty bed and I put Youssef on the floor beside it. He was wearing his little black undies, but I removed them with Photoshop. I then created his buttocks by using the crack between his thighs. Pretty good, eh?

Sorry you're feeling bad, Jo.

[jillyson]

I totally knew you made his sweet tookas! *sigh but again...very inappropriate of me to be lusting after it in his present condition! Lol!
I have more comments that I was too in shock to type coherently, so...

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I wanted to go back and leave a proper comment before I went to bed! Lol! The story was fabulous - very well written, and if the reader isn't involved with these characters you've created, then they don't have a pulse! Lol!

I know how the game (or sometimes the writing) takes you in directions you don't plan on going, but I love the direction yours went in! Even if my Youssef doesn't pull thru, the story is fabulous and I loved every minute of it! (however, I still must give my 'Team Youssef!' chant!)

This is so fun! Far more entertaining than many books I've read by people who are paid to write them!

I think I may have had a minor stroke over that cliff hanger, but I'm in for the long haul!

If I were Nellie, I wouldn't buy HS's excuse for a minute. He might've fallen in love with her, but the fact is, he was married & never said a word about it. IMO, if he really loved her, he would've been honest. Even partially honest would've worked - he could've said he was in the mddle of a divorce, then started the process after the fact. Instead, he didn't say a word, and worse, let her hang all that time afterward without a word.

I will now put away my cheating dog soapbox. *steps down

Now, how in the world did you get them to make all of those upset/frightened/horrified faces???

[Tina ☺]

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LOL! Well, I could send you a copy without the knife.

[jillyson]

I feel a screen saver comin' on! Lol! (I added new comments to my spoiler, now that my brain has had time to process the awesomeness that was this chapter!)

[Crissy]

Wow that was intense! Great chapter and nice cliff hanger lol

[Tina ☺]

Thanks Crissy! I'm glad you liked it! ;D You know, if I had to describe this chapter using one word, intense would be that word!

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Dang Jill, you are a hard-hearted ol' thing where Ho Sung is concerned! lol He had a perfectly good reason for doing what he did. He fell crazy in love with her and it scared and confused him. His marriage was crappy and miserable anyway and wasn't really a marriage at all. Plus... and I forgot/didn't have room in the frames without adding another picture, he ran the risk of being completely disowned by his family because of leaving his wife, and now he has been. *sniff* The poor thing! He also tried to tell her sooner, but she wouldn't talk to him at all, so she found out he was married from Zhan after he'd left his wife.

*steps off the 'in defense of Ho Sung' soapbox.

As for your question, it's easy to get all those sad faces when your sim has a broken heart. I had Youseff as her boyfriend and just had him break up with her. Now she has a broken heart and can cry on someone's shoulder, be cheered up, etc.

Also, some of the faces are from having arguments/being insulted, etc. After I snapped shots of those faces, I photoshopped them over the true faces in some of the other pics. It was a bit of work, but it was TONS of FUN! ;D

BTW, no sims were actually harmed in the making of this story. Guess who played the part of Dr. Massri... It was Youssef!