I'm so glad you love it! I was afraid this one might be a little bit *too* Southern for you. ;) I just got back from the Smokies, and while I was there I went to the river and decided exactly which house Sawyer grew up in. Then I just had to write it. And Eudora Welty? You couldn't flatter me any more than that, because she went to college in the little town I live in now, and she's a hero around these parts! Thank you so much! :D