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 Romance/Love: September 01, 2010 Issue [#3939] |
  Romance/Love This week: Do You Believe in Setting Them Free? Edited by: marandaMore Newsletters By This Editor   1. About this Newsletter 2. A Word from our Sponsor 3. Letter from the Editor 4. Editor's Picks 5. A Word from Writing.Com 6. Ask & Answer 7. Removal instructions   Hello! My name is maranda and I'm your editor for the Romance/Love Newsletter this week.     Do You Believe in Setting them Free? If you love someone set them free. If they come back to you, it was meant to be. Most of us have probably heard this saying many times during their lifetime. As a teenager, it was a fun little ditty that helped me get through some rough times. As an adult, I take the sentiment more seriously. Can some broken relationships be mended? I've been thinking about that question a lot lately, and how, or if it applies to my own life. I just finished reading Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, a young adult novel about 10th grader Leo Borlock, who meets, and eventually falls in love with, the eccentric new student, Stargirl Caraway. Besides being a fantastic study of nonconformity, the novel also has a subtle message about lost love. During the course of Leo and Stargirl's relationship, Leo goes from accepting Stargirl's strange ways to despising them. He attempts to change her into someone "popular" in order to save his own reputation, only to lose her after he succeeds. Isn't that the way it always is? We try too often to change the ones we love, to make them "fit in," either with us or with what we perceive society wants from them. In doing so, we no longer experience the ones we fell in love with in the first place. We're lucky if we don't destroy our relationships while we're trying to "fix" them. Most people can only change their personality so much before they've had enough. Maybe that's when we should take a step back and decide if it's worth it, or if it's time to "set them free." I won't give away what happens to Leo and Stargirl, except to say that, being a young adult novel, Leo only begins to "get it" as a 16-year-old. So, what do you think? Does Leo get Stargirl back? Is it ever possible to get a love back after realizing that you've made poor choices? Sometimes, does time and space really make the difference? I hope so. 
Most of today's Editor's Picks deal with lost loves reuniting in some way. They come from a call I put out around the site for such stories. Remember, not all reunions have fairytale endings.
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