Poor Xander but I can't help wondering if Tara might be able to help him put things into perspective. I always saw her as the Earth Mother type and maybe what this screwed up little family needs is a mother figure.

As "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (by Jean Giraudoux) said: "Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon" (though even this problem might have taken the Madwoman a couple of days *g*)

Shakatany