I tend to forget my characters after a year or so, and how much I Love them!  I remembered some incident from the Jane stories, and started reading Jane—the second book—again. 

It was startling to see how much better my dialog had been back in the early 'aughts', as they call them; I think Jane was written around 2003.  I think I had visited England around then, and it was still fresh in my mind.  (Helen visited England in Westfield, around that time, for much the same reason.)

Jane—the character—and the twins were deeply involved in a sort of three-way love affair.  Not a love triangle, as I understand it, but they were in a 3-way stable relationship that was very loving.  Today, I might try to depict something like that, but I think I'm a little too experienced to make it convincing.  So I have lost some of the writing skills I have taken for granted. 

Kay