YES...Neal is going home! This was so bittersweet and beautifully written. You could just feel Peter's pain and yet his love and heartfelt good wishes for Neal shone through like a beacon of hope. I would love to read a sequel about them meeting up again and mending their fences. I'm not sure how I feel about an alternate ending because I don't want anything to destroy the good feelings I have right now that all will eventually be well between them. I'm just going to hang on to that hope. Nice job as always.