"But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night that leaves the heroine to wake up covered with bruises in the shape of her husband’s hands — and when that heroine then spends the morning explaining to her husband that she’s incredibly happy even though he injured her, and that it’s not his fault because she understands he couldn’t help it in light of the depth of his passion — that’s profoundly irresponsible."

For two years a married man was having an affair with an Italian woman. One night, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money to go to Italy and secretly have the child. he said, if she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18, and would also pay for college. She agreed, but ask how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discrete, he told her simple mail him a post card, and write ‘spaghetti’ on the back in the message area. He would then arrange for the child support payment to begin. One day, about nine months later, he came home to his confused wife. ‘Honey’ she said, ‘you received a very strange post card today.’ He said, ‘Just give it to me and I’ll explain it later’ She gave it to him and then watched as her husband turned white , then fainted after he read the card. On the card was written: Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Three with meatballs, two without. Please send extra sauce!!

"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die."