Chapter summary: Sheldon begged his mother to stay another day after the wedding.
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Title: "The Connubial Catalyst"
Description: Sheldon and Amy wrestle with the increasing demands of modern life and family, but an opportunity comes along that may finally make their dreams come true.  Meanwhile, Leonard, Howard and Raj face major life changes as well.
Fandom: The Big Bang Theory
Genre: Comedy/Romance/Angst
Characters: Sheldon/Amy and everybody else
Word Count: 65,000+
Author's Note: This is a companion piece to "The Coitus Consideration" and a sequel to The Gamete Indeterminacy, and those stories are mandatory reading to understand this story.  So… chop, chop.
Disclaimer: The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, and is produced by them along with Lee Aronsohn. It is a Warner Brothers production and airs on CBS. All characters, plots and creative elements derived from the source material belong exclusively to their respective owners. I, the author of the fan fiction, do not, in any way, profit monetarily from the story.
Rating: M (for later chapters)

As had been scheduled in an email, commanded by his boss, and persuasively argued by Amy, Sheldon entered the Physics Building's conference room bright and early on Thursday morning for the delegates to the Meeting of the Science Education Commission. According to the email, elite science institutions throughout the U.S. had been invited to send professors who, ahem, "had an invested interest and altruistic desire to lend their professional expertise in spearheading and implementing bicoastal initiatives that would enrich the nation's high school and undergraduate science programs, building better scientists for tomorrow." There was quite possibly nothing Sheldon wanted to do less. Other than kill crickets in the bathroom. That was Amy's job.

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Author's Note: Coda (and spoilers for) Episode 5.24, "The Countdown Reflection"
Rating: K+

Dearest Constanza,

I must beg your forgiveness, as many a mundane, tiring or distracting day has caused me to leave your pages forsaken and devoid of the goings-on of my life. But after a series of days as momentous as these, I frankly have looked forward to chronicling the ensuing events in this treasured tome almost since the moment that they began to unfold. With a wedding, a dinner at the Wolowitz home (always a hoot) and a space launch ahead of me, excitement was all but guaranteed. Yet, even I could not foresee the thrill that would await me.

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