I apologize if my little conspiracy theorizing there was insulting to her. I never meant to suggest she was lying or had ill intent, it just seemed there had to be some kind of secret given what appeared to be her refusal to confirm or deny what Pat was doing. It never occurred to me that the reason was that it was still too fresh a wound; I though a year would be long enough of a wait before asking about it. I'm also sorry if anyone thinks it's tactless of me to continue talking about this, but I see this like pulling off a band-aid. Dragging it out will only prolong the pain. Once we have a definitive answer it will be over and nobody will ever bother her or Pat again.
Yes we're all curious, but this isn't even about what I or any of us wants; it's about what Ben wanted. I think half the reason I still care is because Ben cared. It was back when he showed up on this forum to answer questions years ago that I went from being curious about what could've been to regularly checking the news feed. His enthusiasm was contagious and I really wanted to see him get the chance to fulfill his dream of finishing the story. This was his masterpiece that he never stopped thinking about. Even if he never finished it, even if all that's left for us to find are nebulous ideas, he cared enough about the fans getting to see it to put it in his last will and testament. We may not get anything, but let it not be said that we didn't even look.
If you were right and this was just a mailing error or Pat forgot, someone just needs to ask her if she knows what happened. If, as Sonique seems to suggest, there are still boxes of documents that haven't been sorted through yet and Pat doesn't have the time or the emotional fortitude to do it, then the right thing to do is enlist someone to help. I'm willing to pay for a professional document management company or a file clerk or someone to come pick up whatever's left and either go through it or digitize it for easy searching if she'd feel more comfortable doing it that way, but I'm sure many of us would also be willing to fly out there and spend a week going through a storage garage full of papers if that's what it takes.
Despite my zeal, I'd be perfectly willing to accept Pat's refusal. These last 4 years I've honestly just been waiting for somebody to say that there are definitely no more notes or in any event that this is all we're ever going to get, but nobody's been willing to tell me that. I just want closure, and to be able to say that I did everything I could to help.
She swears up and down that all she has is Ben's partial movie script and whatever she got by word-of-mouth over the phone, which isn't really a whole lot more. 
