RE: The last night

This story was really special @rare-gem. It was nicely developed and balanced and had me hooked from start to finish. I could see where it was going, but you told it in an emotive way that tugged at the heartstrings and made the reader will Toba on to succeed. Having said this, a good story also needs to be presented so that it flows well and doesn't jar. To this end, you need to take the time to edit your work. There were too many instances of mixed tenses and incorrect forms of the noun eg: plurals when the singular was required etc. You also add commas after speech marks, which shouldn't be there if you have ended a piece of dialogue with a question mark or exclamation mark or any other punctuation. Basic editing of spelling errors, punctuation, and grammar (without using AI to rephrase etc), is not a difficult task and simply requires the writer to run their work through Grammarly or Google Docs before publishing. But then ONLY accept light editing suggestions to spelling errors, punctuation. and grammar such as tense changes or plural/singular etc. I am being careful to state this clearly because I want you to use the tools available to you, but not to fall into the trap that some have, by accepting all of the editing suggestions and ending up with an AI influenced piece that could get you into trouble. I hope this makes sense. On this occasion, your story carried itself well, and curation has not been as impacted as it should have been. In order to achieve higher curation going forward, you are going to need to edit your work. In closing, I do want you to know that this was a lovely story. Well done!