The future belongs to them, as full and bright with wide-open promise as the new millennium.

And then 18 months later, it all falls apart.

Instead it delivers something much warmer and subtler and more human a deeply felt, fully lived-in love story.

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and the full support of her wealthy parents.

When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person, Celestial muses.

Its like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg.

Its the same thing, but its not the same at all.

Like her, its impossible not to feel altered byMarriage not gladly, exactly, but still for the better.A-