The news shouldn't come as a suprise to her, and though it may be richly deserved, she probably won't take it well. Don't count on her to provide much assistance with the second project. You have nothing to hang your head about. She wrote the book, you're just the one reading it.

I know...easier said than done. Believe me! Perhaps you could nudge her while chatting at the top of some stairs? She takes a tumble and voila! Situation solved! ha ha

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.