[supercat]

I'm trying to. I don't know if it's just late, or what, but I'm having a little trouble discerning who is who. Is Portia = Felos? Who is Michael and who is Terri? I am definitely confused now. I thought I had it straight the first time I read through it, but then I wasn't sure, so I reread it. Now I've read it through so many times with so many different possibilities, I can't figure out which one makes the most sense. Help!

Shylock=Michael/Felos/Greer. Portia=Bush/Gibbs.

Michael Shylock wants his pound of feeding tube; Portia Bush decides that if he must have it, he may but he must not remove an ounce of oral feeding and hydration. Michael decides that this is an impossible requirement, so he pleas to be freed from the order, but Portia Bush doesn't let him off easy and so he is forced to seek exile in Cuba, where he's never heard from again.

Well, something like that. Not a plausible scenario in quite the exact form written, but do you see where I'm going?

[Ohioan from Florida]

Yes, now I do! I wasn't putting Bush into the scheme of things! (See, it is past my bedtime!) Good story, though! So, I take it in the Shakespeare version, Shylock is banished? The Bard had a great idea there!