At 10:40 PM 2/05/97 -0500, you wrote:

At 11:19 PM 5/2/97 -0400, Kangei@aol.com wrote:

The premise goes something along these lines:
Akane slowly realizes the magnitude of her blessing, that it is an uncanny
second chance to for her to relive life the way she believes it should be for
her.  Her memories and the lessons of her past life remain intact, and Akane
expresses new appreciation for her unsuspecting fiance and their destiny.  

 The basic problem I see with this premise is that a woman with the life
experience and character formed over nearly a century will not be
compatible with a 17-year old mate. Akane will be vastly more complex and
sophisticated than Ranma and they will have no chance to grow up together.
Where will she find the enthusiasm and naivete that comes so naturally and
becomingly to a young woman in love?  Who will be her peers?  I'm not
saying that you shouldn't write this story, but that you should be aware of
some of the problems that I think that you would have to address.  If you
think that you can make it work, go for it.

I'm not so sure, ye know. I mean - true, she has lived those eighty years,
but most of what happened in them has been undone. She's going to have been
tugged back to her sixteen-year-old world, along with a teenager's life,
worries, and problems. Remember how sometimes you'd go back to school after
a huge break and after two days you'd almost forget you were ever away? It'd
be an expanded version of that. Besides - Akane may not have *full* memory
of the entire eighty years, as I expect many people wouldn't have (I
certainly don't have a full memory of the last twenty-something). I think it
could work, try it.

Urac 'Ratbat' Sigma, ever the contradictory.

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