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A Child of My Own - Beru's diary - updated 9/25 - Beru, Owen, Luke
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Gina
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4/16 8:28am
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RE: A Child of My Own - Beru's diary - updated 4/16 - Beru, Owen, Luke
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Lovely update, K.  You're portraying so eloquently all the emotions they must have gone through during the course of raising Luke- the love, fear, confusion, etc.
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earlybird-obi-wan
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4/16 8:39am
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Right Beru you have seen right through Obi-Wan's eyes. Obi-Wan couldn't kill Anakin.
Great update
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dancing_star
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4/16 8:48am
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Oh, just beautiful!!  Lovely, wonderful update!  I enjoyed it all!
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Jade_eyes
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4/16 9:11am
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Beautiful update. It's so nice to see Owen's tender side toward Beru and his sympathy toward Ben. Love Beru's insightful and wise reflections about love, hope, fear and grief all mixed together.
Bravo and hugs!!!!
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celine
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4/16 9:38am
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Nice. I really like seeing Beru and Owen's human side a little more than we do in the movies--when it's mostly through Luke's perception...and by then Owen is so distant.
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Jade_Pilot
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4/16 12:27pm
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Just wonderful! Love your continuing insights into Owen and Beru.
Favorite moment: "I think perhaps Owen understands Ben’s reluctance, his inability to kill the boy he had loved and trained for so long. Maybe in those last moments, when Ben had the chance to end Anakin’s life, he could no longer see the monster Anakin had become, but perhaps saw the boy he had raised."
That took my breath away!
Bravo!
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JediKaren
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4/16 3:49pm
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was good! Keep it up!
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Alexis_Wingstar
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4/16 3:59pm
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I love Owen's reaction to the news. Great update.
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KELIA
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4/17 12:58pm
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he had been to want Luke anyway, to love him, no matter our own danger
That is what I admire most about Owen. That was a tough choice he had to make and I'm glad he made it, despite what it ended up costing him.
I'm not surprised Beru recognized Anakin is merely lost.
Great update
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LilyHobbitJedi
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Who better to find the father than the son?
That's for sure, I'm so glad that Beru realizes (or at least guesses) that Luke will be the one to help redeem his father.
Great update!
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AzureAngel2
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4/18 6:27am
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RE: A Child of My Own - Beru's diary - updated 4/16 - Beru, Owen, Luke
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Oh no! A fanfic that I have overseen until now!
*did look out for earlybird´s fanfics!*
You know what, I go back to the very beginning of this story and read from there on, because your latest up-date did intrigue me a big, big deal!
Okay, I read it feverishly and I am sooo desperate to be on your PM list. Pretty please!
You describe the relationship of Beru & Owen so well that one can almost see the future glimpse through. It is a very touching story. Blessed be!
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Jeditheskyisblue
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4/21 7:26am
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Baby Luke is just so cute and Beru and Owen love him so much already. Great that they seem to have taken the news about Vader/Anakin not horrible and it hasn't made them not want Luke.
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Meredith_Kenobi
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4/30 5:16pm
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Amazing, as always.
Beru is a smart woman. She's already realized the pull that Luke's parentage will have on him. What she doesn't know, is that Luke will succeed where Obi-Wan couldn't.
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VaderLVR64
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5/2 6:06am
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RE: A Child of My Own - Beru's diary - updated 4/16 - Beru, Owen, Luke
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Gina You know how I feel about Beru. Thank you for reading.
earlybird-obi-wan Obi-Wan may look on that as a failure, but I'm not sure I can. 
dancing_star Thanks for reading!
Jade_eyes She's a very wise woman. 
celine I think Owen often gets shortchanged. 
Jade_Pilot I've always thought that their past was what stopped Obi-Wan from killing Vader on Mustafar. 
JediKaren Will do!
Alexis_Wingstar I love Owen, the old grump!
KELIA I think even if Owen knew how it would end, he would have made the same choice, just glad that Luke got away.
LilyHobbitJedi She senses the possiblity, I'm sure.
AzureAngel2 I'll add you and thanks for reading!
Jeditheskyisblue Who could NOT want Luke?
Meredith_Kenobi She's very wise indeed.
Entry #12
I have decided that my speculations on Ben’s motives for bringing Luke to us should remain my own. My reasons for this are twofold. First, Owen needs no other reason to dislike Ben Kenobi. Where those two meet, there will be conflict. The fault lies with neither of them, and both. It is a puzzle I will never solve, and at this point, I’m not sure it matters much. For now, Luke is ours alone. The future will take care of itself.
My second reason for keeping silent is that this is only my guess as to what Obi-Wan - goddess, will I ever stop forgetting to call him Ben?? – might intend for Luke to do in the future. I may be doing the poor man a disservice. I might be mistaken.
But the thing is… Stars, the thing is, I don’t think I’m wrong. Not about this.
I’m not even sure why I’m so certain. I just am.
I look at Luke in my arms, his eyes wide and innocent, bright with curiosity, and I know that no one – not even what Anakin has become – could resist the love of this child. Even a monster - who was, after all, once a man - must have a heart. He’s just hidden it away, I think. I hope.
Luke is the image of his father, and that would have to strike a chord of memory in even the blackest heart, the darkest soul. Luke’s mere existence may one day prove to be Anakin’s saving grace. But would I risk Luke’s life for Anakin’s chance at redemption?
I’m ashamed to admit that I would not. Luke’s life is too precious, Anakin’s chances of being saved from himself too slim. I am selfish, I know. But I can’t help it. For now, I have a say in what Luke will do with his life. But the day will come when I am no longer the one to decide. What if Luke looks at me and tells me that he wants to risk his life in exchange for redeeming his father?
What will I say? Will I feel betrayed and wonder if all that we have given him was not enough? Or will be as understanding as I hope I would be, and realize that his love for his father does not mean he has less for us?
And what of Padmé? What did Anakin feel for her at the end? There is something about that – something between Anakin and Padmé - that Ben has not revealed. And I don’t know if he ever will. Ben carries his burdens and his secrets together, asking no one else to bear their weight for him.
Something went terribly wrong at the end, not only between Anakin and Obi-Wan, but also between Anakin and Padmé.
I wonder which betrayal hurt Obi-Wan worse. Which scared him more?
I can’t imagine.
Then I remember the look in Ben’s eyes as he spoke of Vader. There was hope there, yes. But there was also doubt. And fear.
I know that he’s not at all sure that even the love of a son could redeem a man as lost as Anakin Skywalker. If Ben has doubts, then how can I have faith?
He knew and loved Anakin, but something holds Ben back from complete trust in Luke’s ability to redeem his father. So I must ask myself what will happen if Luke cannot pull Anakin from the darkness?
One of them will have to die.
I think Ben already knows that.
Luke’s light will not be hidden on the dunes of Tatooine forever, no matter what Owen believes. No matter what I would hope for. The day will come when Luke must strike out to forge a destiny that will include a galaxy much larger than ours.
Somehow, I sense a meeting with his father is inevitable. I can only hope for enough time.
Enough time?
I don’t even know what that means.
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Alexis_Wingstar
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5/2 6:19am
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Another beautiful update. Beru's insight is astounding. I have no doubt if things went a little differently, and Luke had actually been able to tell her he wanted to risk his life to redeem his father, she would give him the understanding he needed. Tearfully, perhaps, but yeah, I think she would.
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