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Reviews For Learning to Love
Although I am not generally a reader of Child Fics, I was intrigued by your summery. I have made it as far as your second chapter, and commend you on your excellent command of English, and fascinating plot. However, despite finding your story to be one of the better-written ones I have happened across recently, I am afraid that I will cease to read it, simply because leukaemia is currently a rather sore subject for me, for the reason that I have a friend who suffered through it at the age of ten to twelve or so, and who has only recently been given an almost full bill of health. I did not know her at the time of her illness, and feel guilty that I was unable to support her when she had most need of it, and reading about a child who has suffered the same as she did is simply too emotive for me. I appreciate the sensitivity, and obvious awareness, with which you are treating this story, though, and did not wish to leave this unsaid. There is one area, though, that you seem unaware of, in concern to health issues in the UK. Certainly, this information might not be widely known abroad, I do not know, I only wished to share it with you; healthcare in the UK is completely free unless you chose to go 'private' (which reduces waiting lists and such for operations at a certain fee). In some, though few, circumstances, if your condition is extraordinarily rare and the drug to treat it has not been funded for by the National Health Service (or NHS) it might be necessary to seek medical help elsewhere, in which case you would have to pay. In the case of Harry, in your story, his treatment would be entirely covered. Of course, you may already be aware of this, and simply needed the issue of money paying for treatment as an element of your plot. Whether this is true or not, I do not believe it is at all necessary for you to alter your story to reflect this information unless you truly desire to do so. I simply wanted to make you aware of the situation, if you were not already. And, of course, to assure you that, despite my ceasing to read it for personal reasons, you have created a marvellous story, which you ought to be immensly proud of. Anything else you write in the future, I will be happy to read, and perhaps, when it is less potent in my memory, I will return to this story. Yours, Prince Edwin (A guest on this site.)
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