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Romance/Love: September 01, 2010 Issue [#3939]

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 This week: Do You Believe in Setting Them Free?
  Edited by: Crys-not really here Author IconMail Icon
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3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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Hello! My name is Crys-not really here Author IconMail Icon and I'm your editor for the Romance/Love Newsletter this week. *Heart*


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Letter from the editor

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.


Editor's Picks

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.

 The Connection Open in new Window. [13+]
A love connection created many years ago
by rindaroo Author Icon

Girl from a Dusty Memory Open in new Window. [18+]
Searching the dusty folders of my memory, her elusive name made me fall all over again
by iKïyå§ama Author Icon

 Reunited Lovers Open in new Window. [13+]
Lovers from a distance reunited
by T.L.Finch Author Icon

 Reunited Open in new Window. [ASR]
Friends separated by distance discover new love.
by Brandiwyn🎶 Author Icon

 UNTIL ME MEET AGAIN Open in new Window. [ASR]
An older poem that still holds true of an endless love.
by COUNTRYMOM-JUST REMEMBER ME Author Icon

 The Princess's Knight Open in new Window. [18+]
a chance reunion between a man and his lost love
by Manny Author Icon

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Valentine's Day Open in new Window. [18+]
A lonely woman finds love in a most unexpected place.
by Robert Waltz Author Icon

 Moment Open in new Window. [18+]
Sometimes all it takes is a conversation.
by Turkey DrumStik Author Icon

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 Forever and Always, Me Open in new Window. [13+]
A letter written to a long lost love.
by Nicole Hensley Author Icon


 
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Thanks to those of you who wrote in about newsletter last month!

Loved the newsletter!!! thank you so much for including my poem! And as for ideas and topics they are always very very good! keep it up! :) -Bakhtawar Author IconMail Icon

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