Interesting...I love that and might steal it, the fact that heat is sentient! Because it is. It knows how miserable you are in it, and just turns it UP, and then takes away any breeze. And then it makes it rain, which makes you feel like you're lying in a pool of your own sweat. (I had thought the rain would cool everything down, and I blessed it, but then it didn't, so I cursed it!) Tennessee, eh? That's some lovely hilly country, that I regret I only had 8 hours to drive through on my way to Mentone. All of that part of the country has some amazing beauty that you can't see from the highway, alas.

Thanks for your compliment about Sam's voice, because it's a complicated thing to be a kid, so it's nice to know I got it right. And you haven't forgotten so very much if you can still empathize with Sam. : D