if ever a character deserved a fanfic of her own, it's "plain" Mary, she who never met a trite, ponderous thought she didn't love and yet who managed to make a niche for herself among her pretty sisters.

In my head!canon, Mary started being invited on holiday to the Colinses' house after Lizzie and Jane married (and the Lucas/Bennet visiting circle thereby got smaller). Invitations to Rosings naturally followed. After Lady Catherine's death, Anne de Bourgh inherited her fortune, and she and Mary happily Llangollen-ed together for the rest of their lives.

Nobody will ever convince me otherwise than that Austen simply never got around to writing that bit.

I'm sorry about your car. Auto Alzheimer's sounds... well actually it sounds kind of funny, but probably in a way at which I shouldn't laugh.