*smiles* Nice twist at the end. I was not expecting that, reading the entire way with an evolutionary perspective.

She was a simple woman who lived in her antique home in the midst of a new world that had sprung out of the ruins of the old. I love the description here.

They had tried to domesticate the worst savages And in some ways, I believe we really are... because we deceive ourselves about with that nice veneer of civility we call the cerebral cortex.

Excellent job (as usual)!