There is something so appealing to a story of a man and a woman,<\/p>\n
isn’t it?<\/p>\n
But the story can never be simple; toss in domineering mother element,<\/p>\n
an old friendship, a new romance. Give our protagonist flaws.<\/p>\n
Make them suffer. Beauty is in suffering, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
Then when the end comes and it’s happy, it’s all the sweeter, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
But isn’t that just goddamn wrong.<\/p>\n
There is no light at the end of the rainbow, no right answer.<\/p>\n
Say the story slightly misses the mark; the heroine walks off<\/p>\n
without a lover’s spine supporting her<\/p>\n
(though we all love a steamy scene or two with the opposite lead)<\/p>\n
and goes into the sunset, loveless, but lovely in her pain and power,<\/p>\n
goddess-like, and seizes her own, and gets that ring for herself,<\/p>\n
to be herself, to connect with a bigger world,<\/p>\n
wouldn’t that just be something, rather than the many other angel stories<\/p>\n
where the heroine never learned to walk alone at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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