Hooray Luna-Art!  I'm so glad you were able to 
get it!  (And hey--that's a pretty nice looking 
consolation prize!)  ^_~

That Venus cel is my other miracle cel story, 
but I wasn't about to go into it since I knew so 
many people were really crushed to have missed 
it.  It wasn't just your computer, you know--
during the last few minutes of the auction, 
Yahoo Japan's entire site crashed and NOBODY 
could place bids.  I had logged on to the site 
to watch the end of the auction (I was on pins 
and needles too since it was my #1 wishlist cel) 
and I couldn't even load it for the whole last 
five minutes.  I heard all about it later from 
other frustrated collectors, many of whom were 
my friends... The irony is that the final price 
was my exact maximum bid, not because I wouldn't 
have wanted to pay more, but because I was a 
poor college student at the time and that was 
all I had.  If even one person had gotten a bid 
through, I would have lost it.  

And I know that doesn't make anybody else out 
there who wanted it feel better.  T_T

It was really awful for everyone who wanted to 
bid and weren't able to do so fairly, but I'm so 
glad you were able to find another cel from the 
sequence.  That just makes my day to see that!  
And hey, yours even has the little golden 
heart!  Looks like we were both blessed with 
extremely good luck.  ^_^

~Anne