Well, I've said it several times... My preferred bachelorette is Maria. Even more so with your writing. While the book you've got her writing would be somewhat too normal for what I like to see in childrens' books (there's so many books just like that already), the parallels between the story and her relationship with Fox would just make it too sad if it didn't have a happy ending.

I actually started a new runthrough of HM64, trying for more like a 100% run like you've been. I had a somewhat hard time getting Ann's affection high enough by the end of the first winter, since I went straight for chickens and then cows ASAP and so planted hardly any corn over the summer. I didn't realize she ate your whole day like that... When I got that scene, I had raised her to 200 affection at, like, 4:00, so I was able to get all of my chores for that day done.