It is WONDERFUL to hear from you!!!! I hope you are well and that it has been good busy rather than sad or stressful busy. The stories aren't going anywhere. I love not man less (which I shorten to ILM) is on ff.net. The full quote (courtesy of Snacky who found it for me):

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage