Aww, yay, thank you!

and for a second I thought the fic was going to morph into something where Ray is completely mortified and the whole town rejects him.

Oh, Christ, no! When Fraser vouched for his town, he knew what he was talking about. *g* Also, I could never do that to Ray. I'd have to say ten thousand hail marys, and I'm not even remotely Catholic. *g*