Thank you! I'm having so much fun with this. I did have a "the application has terminated" moment, and nearly panicked, but I had saved not too long before, so it's OK. But it made me take a break to catch up on Silver Bend!
You know, I never had problems with that apartment lot before. I think I actually know what the issue was, and it would have been an easy fix, had I thought of it in the first place (Use SimBlender to clear off all non-residents, and then just exit the business lot and go home), but once I deleted her, all hell broke loose. Deleting a sim AT HOME is fine. They come back. But never, EVER do it on a community lot!
On the plus side, I now have a literally uncontrollable "villain" for my story. Yay! Plot! Drama! Danger!
Yeah, so far Gage's kids don't look much like him, but they are young, yet. It's when they hit teendom that their faces really explode. And of course Sandy's doing an unofficial Uglacy, so we'll see what happens there!