We fervently hope so. In The Stackhouse Filibuster, Josh's mother is mentioned only in passing, as the addressee of his email, and the sender of the slippery shoes. The mentions of his mother in Isaac & Ishmael (i.e. that she wants Josh to quit his job) and The Butterball Hotline* (i.e. that she moved to West Palm Beach) aren't really consistent with our interpretation of Adira Lyman. But considering how fond we've grown of Adira, well, we're willing to ignore that.

Who'd have guessed a year ago that the Collective would end up writing a series premised upon the sickly sweet idea that Josh and Donna are married with children? Certainly not us. Then Molly Jordan Moss Lyman, Master Politican, Junior Grade, made her presence known and refused to be ignored. She's kinda like her father that way. Our Molly is an amusing blend of traits from both Josh and Donna -- she's got a healthy ego, an impressive vocabulary for a four-year-old, and almost frightening organizational abilities. Molly's got her parents wrapped around her chubby little finger; the only question is: What happens when little Josiah "Joss" Kennedy arrives on the scene?

Susan Douglas-Radford first appeared in an early story of Ryo's (A Doormat or a Prostitute) as a very leftist Representative who proposed a troublesome amendment that provides CJ and Ainsley an opportunity to argue the merits of feminism. And although it was "published" after the Partyverse, the next time Susan Douglas-Radford earned a mention in our stories was a conversation in Exit Strategy: After, a post-episode fic for Two Cathedrals. In the Exit Strategyverse, Susan Douglas-Radford is still serving in the House of Representatives, and the story remains in canon. She also pops up in the Mollyverse, running for Governor in Pennsylvania. And then, of course, there's the Partyverse. The bulk of this series is set in 2006, during the presidential campaign of Susan Douglas-Radford (who, in this universe, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 2004). All of this is the result of the first story, For the Good of the Party, which launched us rather spectacularly into an alternate universe.

Well, Josh hasn't really ever audited anyone. He did, however, threaten Laurie, telling her "the IRS works for me" during their confrontation (In Excelsius Deo). The idea that Josh audited Dr. Free Ride is all Jo's, from her hilarious story The Chatterbox, although this is another idea we'd happily give to Aaron Sorkin if only he'd return our calls. ;)

Sure! In the Partyverse, anyway. Evan Drexler, CJ's husband, is a firmly apolitical writer (and quite the hottie). Jesse Addox is Sam's boyfriend and a chemistry professor at UC-Berkeley. And Toby's contentious relationship with Susan Douglas-Radford's Chief of Staff, Toni Timian (who also appeared in Exit Strategy: After), exploded into a campaign affair.

Hey, anything's possible. However, the most we've heard about Donna's roommate on the show is that she -- the roommate -- owns cats at which Josh tends to yell while drunk. Candi-with-an-"i" was so dubbed very early on in Jo's Innocent Kiss stories. The related jokes about whether she knows Sam's friend the prostitute all grew out of the name Candi. She also earned a mention in A Winning Strategy: Wordplay when she sold her version of the Josh/Donna scandal to The Star.