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By : nuit

From KiwiGirl on July 18, 2007
Nuit I never realised that I had not written something here. I thought that I had. And now even though it is late I want to tell you just how much I loved this story, even the moments when I was crying so hard that I could not see. It was a beginning this, you were the start of him touching so many lives and making us all the better for it.

XXXX
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From nuit on September 03, 2006
Thank you Peach (the site was down for a while after you posted your review so I didn't get to reply immediately) and Cait. This story is dear to my heart and I am very happy that it touched yours, glad you found something X
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From ANON - cait on August 27, 2006
that was absolutely stunning. the voice was beautiful, so clear, so evocative. i'm australian and that's the joe-love i've always pictured. thank you. you made my night.
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From ANON - Peach on February 09, 2006
I can not tell you just how much this story touched me. I enjoyed reading every second of it- all at once mind you and it's left me with a sad smile on my face and tears in my eyes that I couldn't help but cry. I wanted to keep reading- keep Joe alive- I wanted more when this story was already more than I could have asked for. Thank you for taking the time to write it and thank you so much for sharing it. It's a wonderful story that I am very sure I will read over and over again. Peach
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From ANON - Lizzy on January 14, 2006
So finally it is done and I can put aside my red pencil and say all the wonderful things I have been meaning to say since you started.

You have breathed life and rich meaning into this story of Joe Byrne and the Kelly Gang. Evie comes across as a real person who generously shares her story with us. I can hear her voice in my head and see the places and times she tells us about. The back story you have created for Evie gives her words and her emotions credibility and makes her visions of Joe all the more revealing and poignant. Through her voice and her narrative we experience the struggles, the fears, the joys, the passion, and the tragic loss of Joe with her. She is an amazing character, and I am so proud to see her blossom and become the type of woman I can admire.

As for Joe, we have seen him as a rascal, a rebel, a loyal friend, a horse thief, a trusted lieutenant, an outlaw, a lover, an addict, a warrior, a hero, and a man who carried the weight of the world on his shoulders for himself and for the ones he loved. He is all that and so much more. What woman can resist him? All I can say is my trademarked �Oh Joe!� XXX

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From ANON - unplugged32/Chris on January 12, 2006
Chapter 14

It's midnight and I'm sleepy and freezing but I couldn't sleep if I didn't get my thoughts out. When we discussed this chapter I asked you if Evie would find Joe's body etc and you said no, that you had something else in mind. Well, you obviously knew what you were about because you really did make me cry, truly, not just figuratively. The 'vision' of Evie collapsing under the weight of her grief, alone and in shock amidst the chaos of the slaughter made me ache in a way that I won't easily forget. The fact that she wasn't at his side when he died, that she didn't have the chance to hold him as his soul moved on made her grief that much more painful for me. This story is full of unforgettable moments but the scene that really stood out for me is the one where Evie realizes the box and the egg are broken. Perfectly symbolic and utterly heartrending:( You really know how to push my emotional buttons, don't you;)

I want to thank you for letting me be a part of this, for allowing me to take this turbulent emotional journey with you and Evie and Joe but mostly I'd like to thank you for sharing this gorgeously written story. I don't know what ideas you have whirling around in your mind right now but I'd love to see you write more stories when you are ready:)
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From ANON - unplugged32/Chris on January 12, 2006
Chapter 13

This next to last chapter has left me an emotional wreck! When Joe meets up with Evie after Aaron's death I was literally applauding you for fleshing out a part of the film that left us feeling confused and cheated. Joe shooting Aaron deserved more than one line and a look of regret. You've done a brilliant job of showing us what Joe would have felt after murdering his childhood friend. He is so tortured it is heartrending and perfectly realistic. I love the way Joe manages to shake off some of his gloom when he sees Ned. It shows how much Ned and the cause means to him and it's wonderfully effective. The chaos of the preparations for the showdown is beautifully done, your attention to detail making this scene come alive. But then you went and ripped me apart emotionally with the love scene and their subsequent farewell. We always knew how it would end but that doesn't make it any easier to accept, especially when you have created a love as beautiful as this.
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From ANON - LSDL on January 12, 2006
Beautiful, just beautiful. What a ride this has been from Evie's stumbling into the adult world to the horror of Glenrowan and the sadness of the aftermath. But it was wonderful for Evie to really take her own life in hand and strike out on her own knowing that she and Joe had made more of eachother than they were. The characterisation has been fanstastic - well beyond Evie and Joe, the story was full of richly developed characters, particularly Evie's dad, Maggie and Ned. Thankyou for writing it.
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From ANON - Leowen on January 11, 2006
Oh, nuit! I can barely type this review through the tears. It wasn't so much the death of Joe Byrne that got to me, but the open rawness of Evie's grief. I could feel what she felt. I have to keep reminding myself that she didn't exist, well, she did to me. This is by far the absolute best story I've ever read. I loved getting caught up in the place and people of times past. It was a sheer joy to read and a heartache as well, I loved how Evie made peace with it. Brought Joe with her wherever she went and acknowledged that he would always be with her because he had helped make her who she was. That was exquisite and powerfully truthful Thank you so much for this gem or a story.
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From ANON - Gem on January 11, 2006
I have just sobbed my way through this last chapter Nuit. I guess I was already in a pretty emotional state. I feel privileged to have been able to take those flowers to Joe's grave for you and I only wish you could have been there with me. I think he's resting in peace and it was good to see he hasn't been forgotten.

I like that you gave Evie a chance for a new life and some hope after everything she went through. What a courageous strong woman she was and what an enduring love she had. And what a wonderful wonderful story you gave us, heartbreakingly sad but so beautiful in all its realness. Thank you. XX
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From ANON - Sazi on January 11, 2006
I am so sad this is over. I've been dreading reading this last chapter. I hate love stories without happy endings. But Nuit, honey... I wanted to tell you... this is by far the best fanfic I have ever read. And the way you've described Joe and Evie and the whole story, it's spot on. No one knows him better than you, love. It must've been really hard to write. But you did it. And I'm very very proud of you!!!!!
Anyway, I shouldn't have read this final chapter at 8.30am, now I'll be sad for the rest of the day. But it's good to have the full story now. Did I tell you how much I adored it already? I guess I did.
Love you!!
XXXX Sandra
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From ANON - ms_erupt on January 10, 2006
The last line...has me all misty eyed. :(
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From ANON - Blue Magic on January 08, 2006
Chapter 12
I have to say the story of the Kelly Gang never came together for me in the movie the way it has in your story now. It all crystallized this chapter, like now I can see each hard edge as well as the pattern of the whole. I have a sense of the story � how it unfolded.

The two of them in the bath, the pain of Joe�s body having itself been beaten in to the armor like steel to become that warrior that he doesn�t feel the same about being now that he has her to love. it hurts to read it but nothing like it is to hear Joe screaming in the bush.

I knew how right you got it in that scene, because instead of being inside Evie�s skin, I was inside Joe�s. Feeling his feelings I feel like I know what the word jagged means now.

Chapter 13

Even as I want to say something about the next chapter, I have to say I feel like I�m on a horse that�s out of control. Or like I�m holding onto that train. I�m pulling on the reins as hard as I can to keep it from going on, I just want it to slow down and stop.

I find it hard to write about this like anything I say could only diminish it.

I want to say I love them being at their tree and Evie speaking for herself. It does seem a million years ago they were there last.

Their last time together � well its just perfect. Breathless and tender and painful and desperate and gorgeous and everything all mixed up.

I don�t know what to say about the end except that yoiui and Joe and Evie are all a lot braver than me. I am squinting up my eyes, like in the movies at a scary part, trying not to see and to see at the same time. I know now what its like to be ripped in two. And I�m still grateful to have read it.

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From ANON - R on January 07, 2006
Jesus! Loved your writing as always. The touches of humour in the blackest circumstances. The red parrot saying Ned Kelly. The cock crowing :) but mostly I sobbed and sobbed my way through this chapter. It's definitely the best one and the most real. The descriptions of the circus and the surrealness of the Glenrowan Inn and the atmosphere were just wonderful and the emotion of Joe and Evie, their lovemaking and the relationship between them, brilliant. Heartrending the situation they are in. Her being stopped at the door when she wanted to go to him, the inevitabilty of it all. I expect I will read this story over and over if I can ever stop sobbing long enough to see the screen.
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From ANON - Gem on January 07, 2006
Oh Nuit... I had my heart in my mouth when Evie was racing to find Joe, taking the gun off him, the way she just knows him, that desperation of the whole situation. The time they spend alone together, in the room and then outside, knowing yet refusing to believe what's coming... You have just plunged us in the middle of it all, relentlessly bringing closer what we dread. I cried my heart out for both of them when they took leave...
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