![]() ![]() And when I saw stories about teens killing themselves over breakups…or teens in love carrying out murder-suicide pacts, it wasn’t romantic. How romantic! After all-one of our culture’s most celebrated love stories is Romeo & Juliet, the story of two young adults (Juliet is thirteen!) who end up killing themselves for love. If a guy told me he would die without me, I would have been over-the-moon happy. ![]() How does something like that happen? How does a beautiful, bright, kind woman allow that to happen?Įxcept…maybe I could understand more than I liked to admit. It was simply the truth, and I’ve never forgotten it. She wasn’t being silly or playful or ironic. That last response I heard from a friend over twenty years ago. He said if I didn’t marry him, he’d kill himself. ![]() We were both working fast food together, and even in a brown polyester uniform and smelling of grease, he made my heart skip. My best friend set us up-she said we were both so impossible we would be perfect together. Maybe it’s the romantic in me or maybe it’s the writer, but I love to hear the stories. It’s a favorite question of mine when I get to know a new couple. ![]()
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