ROMANTIC LOVE STORY

The Components of Romantic Love

2011-11-25T10:37:00.001-08:00

Love is said to exist in 3 stages, lust, attraction, and attachment. And for most of us, this is a well known fact. However, what many of us may not realize is, recent studies have shown that the brain, releases a certain set of chemicals, when people are in love.

These chemicals include Pheromones, Dopamine, Norepinephrine and Serotonin. Without getting technical, the outcome is a feeling of euphoria or excitement.

This chemical effect and lust, is said not to last more than a couple of months, and is the initial emotion which is experienced in romantic love.

The second stage of Love is, attraction, and is usually based on physical attraction, common interest, and attributes, such as money, status, job title, standing in the community, popularity, etc.

The first two stages of love, lust and attraction, are NOT enough to create a long term relationship. The third stage of love, "attachment" is needed to sustain a long term relationship.

It should be noted, that attachment is avoided, at all cost by some lovers, especially if they have been hurt in the past. This usually is the case, when a couple has been dating for two or three months, and everything is great until one day, one partner makes a sudden move to exit the relationship. Fear of attachment can be a huge stumbling block, when trying to get your mate man or woman to say, "I do."

After the feeling of excitement and euphoria, wear thin after a couple of months, this is where mature actions, must be applied if a relationship is to last. For some, the lost of that euphoria is too much, and they follow the feeling to a new relationship and start all over again with someone new.

A love story follows the events when a couple makes it through all three stages. Movies, novels, and short love stories which provide this type of entertainment, provide a way for the viewer or reader to "remember," when they too felt that way. This type of entertainment reinforces our belief and faith in love.

A sad love story is when one partner doesn't make it through all the stages, and this type of entertainment helps us to mend our own broken heart in the process.-

The 10 Most Romantic Couples in History

2011-11-25T10:36:00.000-08:00

Reams have been written about it; it has forged the most unusual alliances and triumphed over all odds. Like an elephant on rampage (not a very romantic simile but you get the picture), it has not bothered to see who lies in its path, and just completely consumes the persons involved. Yes, we are talking about this thing called Love. Down the decades, Cupid's arrows have sometimes caused two human beings to be so deeply, passionately and hopelessly in love that society and its dictates have simply fallen by the wayside. And we have devoured their immortal love stories, secretly envying these couples who found their matching halves or soul mates. And feeling encouraged to find our own prince or princess.

Here are 10 of the all time most romantic couples in mankind's history.

1. Romeo and Juliet. Arguably, the most famous pair of lovers of all time, this is one love story by William Shakespeare that has inspired generation of lovers, and continues to do so till today. Rome and Juliet are the ultimate synonyms for true, eternal love, and also of love's greatest sacrifice - one's own life.

2. Pyramus and Thisbe. Penned by the Roman poet Ovid in his work 'Metamorphoses', this is a tragic love story that probably set the tone for William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' several centuries later. In this story, two young lovers are next door neighbours but cannot meet openly because of their respective warring families. They used to meet secretly and one day agreed to have a rendezvous under the mulberry tree. Through a series of unfortunate incidents and colossal misunderstandings, both Pryramus and Thisbe die within minutes of each other, each killing oneself believing the other to be dead.

3. Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Intriguing, memorable and intensely romantic, this is a love story whose passionate appeal has not dimmed with time. Not surprisingly, William Shakespeare dramatized the tale of true love in his play. Cleopatra, a breathtakingly beautiful woman, intelligent and powerful, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt while Mark Antony was the Roman general who had succeeded his slain friend Julius Caesar. The two fell in love instantly and their union made them a formidable ruling power, putting Egypt in a position of supremacy. As with all love stories, their course too never ran straight and false news of Cleopatra's death caused Antony to impale himself on his own sword. The shattered Egyptian Queen followed suit, unable to live without her lover.

4. Salim and Anarkali.The Mughals, who ruled India from 1526 till 1858, not only built one of the greatest monument of love there ever was - the Taj Mahal - but also produced several memorable love stories. Among them, the most popular tale has been that of the handsome Prince Salim (the as-yet-uncrowned Emperor Jehangir) and the beautiful courtesan Anarkali, the court dancer of his father's palace. Their love story is the stuff of legends - unlikely alliance, insurmountable social barriers and parental opposition. And, the final, heart-breaking end when Anarkali is walled alive even as a jailed Salim looks on helplessly.

5. Tristan and Isolde. Isolde, the daughter of King of Ireland was engaged to be married to King Mark of Cornwall. King Mark sent his nephew Tristan to Ireland to escort his bride-to-be to Cornwall. However, destiny had planned otherwise. Both Tristan and Isolde fell passionately in love with each other. However, Isolde went on to marry King Mark but never stopped loving Tristan. King Mark learnt of this affair and banished Tristan from Cornwall. The heartbroken Tristan went to Brittany where he met Iseult of Brittany. Ultimately he marries her but never consummates the union. Finally, due to a lie on the part of Iseult, Tristan dies of grief. The shattered Isolde dies soon after.

6. Odysseus and Penelope. This is a Greek love story that is marked by unimaginable devotion and sacrifice. Soon after his marriage to Penelope, Odysseus leaves for battle and is separated from her for the next twenty years. But each patiently awaits the other's return. During these long years of being apart, Penelope steadfastly turns down no less than 108 ardent suitors even though she has little hope of her beloved husband's return. Odysseus, on his part, valiantly spurns the advances of a beautiful witch just so that he could return to his wife and son.

7. Heloise and Abelard. The love story that became world famous in the early 12th century celebrates the passion between a monk and a nun. Peter Abelard was a philosopher par excellence in Paris, who was commissioned by the canon of Notre Dame, Fulbert, to tutor his niece, Heloise, a serious girl. Abelard and Heloise fell madly in love, and a child was conceived as a result of this secret affair. When the canon stumbled onto their love affair, Abelard decided to send Heloise to a convent to avoid the wrath of her uncle. However, the uncle was convinced that Abelard was just amusing himself with his niece and so had him castrated while the latter was sleeping. Deprived of his manhood, Abelard became a monk for the rest of his life, but continued to love Heloise. Heartbroken, Heloise became a nun in that same convent. However, the wonderfully touching love letters that the two exchanged found their way into print later on and inspired true lovers all over.

8. Shah Jehan and Mumtaz Mahal. Another Mughal love story that has endured till this day is the one between the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. After Mumtaz's death in 1629, the heartbroken emperor resolved to build a fitting monument for the love of his life - the magnificent Taj Mahal, hailed as the greatest monument of love. It is also among the New Seven Wonders of the World. Construction on this white marble monument took twenty long years, employing 20,000 workers and 1,000 elephants. Shah Jehan was overthrown by his own son, Aurangazeb, and imprisoned in the Red Fort of Agra. He spent his long and lonely years, standing and staring across the Jamuna River at the gleaming white monument of his beloved queen. Ultimately, Shah Jehan was buried beside her in the Taj Mahal. Lovers try to view the Taj Mahal on a full moon night - it is an unforgettable sight.

9. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. This is an incredible love story in which an English monarch mourned the death of her husband - the one man she loved - for 40 long years. Victoria ascended the throne of England in 1837 and married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1840. Deeply devoted to her husband, Victoria was devastated when Albert died in 1861. The grieving Queen shunned all public appearances for three years. Even after she returned to public life, she never stopped mourning her beloved husband, and continued to wear black until her death in 1901. It was under her rule, the longest in English history, that Britain became a world power on which "the sun never set."

10. Orpheus and Eurydice. In this ancient Greek love story, Orpheus fell madly in love with and married Eurydice, a beautiful nymph. Casting a shadow on this happy pair was Aristaeus, the Greek god of the land and agriculture, who also had an eye upon the ethereal Eurydice. One day, while trying to escape the amorous pursuit of Aristaeus, Eurydice inadvertently stumbled straight into a lair of snakes and was bitten fatally on her legs. The distraught Orpheus played and sang mournful songs that finally moved the gods and the nymphs to restore his lost love to him. However, as with most love stories, this one, too, did not have a happy ending. And he lost Eurydice for the second time, but this time for all eternity.

Did you notice? None of the love stories really had a 'happy ending'. They all ended with either one, or both, lover dying at the end, usually due to some colossal misunderstanding. I wonder if they all had 'lived happily ever after' would we have had felt that same sense of poignancy we experience now? We will never know!

Romance Maker: Create Your Own Love Story

2011-11-25T10:33:00.000-08:00

Throughout many centuries, people have been creating love stories for getting into romantic mood. Whether you are planning a date, a cozy evening with your lover, or there is the Valentine's Day occasion, you might want to get more prepared spiritually for sharing your love with your sweetheart. Whereas the boxes of chocolate hearts, fluffy teddy-bears, fresh flowers and cute colourful 'valentines' have always been, and will always remain a good option for boosting the romantic mood, why not treat yourself -- and perhaps your loved one -- with something different for a change?

Play this nice charming game, and perhaps you will discover in yourself a whole range of new talents: that of a match-maker (setting the two hearts together), of an experienced wooer (teaching a boy how to get his dream-girl pleased), of a romanticist (creating and re-creating your own love story), a voodoo adherent... Oh, perhaps we should not spill the beans as for the latter one, as more than a half of this game's charm lays in the unexpected turns of events. Depending on what sequence of components you choose for your love mixture!

Now, think well and try to answer the question -- what are the components of a good love story? Some would say, two lovers are all that is really takes. For others, material things would matter -- such as cars, expensive outings, diamond rings... Romantic natures would most probably mention love poems, white doves, picnics, songs 'just for two', the first kiss, the first night together, etc....

Well, in this game you are given a flower seed, a nicely decorated egg, a book, a cupid bow, a piece of tree, some tools, a TV/computer and a hammer. Do you think these objects are not something you would make a good romantic story from? Just play this game, and you will see how wrong you could be!

Mix these ingredients together into your 'love potion', and depending on the sequence of the ingredients you are adding into your romance, they story will develop differently! At the end, you will come to a conclusion that what you had been given at the beginning of the game were in fact all the ingredients necessary for a wonderful romantic fairy-tale to come true!..

May Love always reside in your heart, in your life and in your relationships with others! Because that is where it belongs.

A Common Love Story

2011-11-01T02:40:00.000-07:00

The story which I am going to tell here is a very common love story. It may not appear to be a love story at all. You might as well say that it is absurd. This is the problem in life. When we talk about life, they say it seems to be a story, and when we tell them a story, they say there is nothing like a story in it. We see and do all these things in our daily life. Even then a story is a story. It is your verdict now whether it is a story, or everyday incident of life.

Like many other evenings of the past years, the hero of our story, sitting on the raised wall along the Marine drive in Bombay, waiting for his heroine, is watching the play of the waves in the Arabian Sea. The sun has just disappeared behind the horizon, and it appears that before going it has spilled many buckets full of crimson colors. The colors have scattered over the horizon.

The hero may be called by any name. He may be between 22 and 28 years of age. He might be graduate, or post graduate. He could be a clerk in a bank or a private firm, or simply a store keeper in a factory. There are hundreds of such openings in this metropolitan city for the hero or the men like our hero. It hardly makes any difference whether he does this or that. He might be living in a slum, or sharing a room with four other roommates, or he could be a paying guest. It is also possible that our hero lives in a lodge and gets a bed in a room where twelve other persons sleep. One thing is for sure that he can not afford to pay even for a single room apartment.

He could have married his heroine many months before and he would not be waiting for her. Looking at his watch, he thought she should have come by now. He had been sitting there for about an hour. He had met her at this very place, about two years before. Her life was almost similar to his. She might be called by any name, or she might be a degree holder. Though she lives in her own house. Her circumstances are a little better than his but many things were the same. Perhaps, these similarities had brought them closer. The hero is an outsider and she is the native of the city. The heroine has very common appearance. Her dark complexion, sometimes, makes her feel inferior.

Wait a second, for I feel that for the convenience of this narrative we should give them names so that while reading their story we should feel that they are living beings too, and though simple they have their life too. They have their identities too. The story is from India, so let's call them Bharat and Bharati.

It is a coincidence that Bharati writes poems as well. Our hero and heroine who will be identified by the names of Bharat and Bharati are two very common people. They are very honest but suppressed by the society. Their lives can be summed up in three words-struggle, struggle, and struggle. Though they have not tasted success, they could have climbed all the stairs had they been given a chance. They did not get any chance to do so, in spite of being worthy of it. In a way, they can not be blamed for their predicament. They are neither the first nor the last of the couples who became the victims of the circumstances. In fact there is a long story behind it, and we will have to digress for a while to enter the story behind our present story. Yes, it is true that we will come to know more about our hero and heroine, and as a result they will be nearby us. Wherever possible, they will tell their story by themselves. So, it was the 50th independence day of the country. This year was no different from the preceding years. It made no difference to them. But this year, the celebrations were going to be grand, with the government funding. Our hero and heroine were totally indifferent to these festivities.

Looking at Bharat, waiting for Bharati, one could guess what was going on in his mind. He might be thinking about his village, his sick father, his old mother, his unemployed younger brother, and his sister who was waiting to be married, or he might be worried because he had not been able to send them money order this month. It was also possible that he had been fired from his job. It could be Bharati's birthday and he was thinking about buying a small present for her. May be, it was a holiday and he had not a penny in his pocket. It was possible that he had to pay his room rent, or he had promised to take her out to dinner but he had no money. There were innumerable possibilities like these. It is also possible that all our surmises are wrong, and the young man has come to Marine drive to get fresh air and enjoy the freshness of the evening.

Why hadn't things changed in fifty years after the departure of the British masters from India? The growth, in a sense, was more negative than positive: more population, more unemployment, more crimes, and more deaths, more of almost every thing.

Our hero remembers his days when he had left the college. He had to stand in queues, sometimes in front and sometimes last. Jobs were difficult to come by. He had been cheated everywhere. No lucky opportunity had come to him. His first job was in the Municipal Council. He was eighteen years old at that time. It was about ten years ago. Paying one hundred rupees to the officer in the employment exchange, he had his got his name written with much struggle. On his first day in the office, he realized that his work was to spray insecticides in the lanes and by lanes of the city to eradicate mosquitoes. The condition was that he had to have his own bicycle. To refuse meant he would have to be unemployed for the following three months, and to accept meant, he could not apply for any other job for the six months to follow. An old cycle he got from a neighbor whose children he used to teach in the evenings. Unfortunately, the job lasted for three days only. Though there were thousands of people who were involved in much worse jobs in the country, he could not convince himself to kill mosquitoes for more than three days. It doesn't mean that he never got angry; the anger shows its effect by harming own existence of such unemployed young men. Some of such unemployed young men were unable to tolerate the agony of life and chose suicide as the last resort, and many others took to unfair means of earning money.

Now about our heroine. She was the youngest of the five sisters. Three elder sisters were married. The father was a retired bank clerk. Her mother had passed away when she was only ten. After her graduation, she started working as a teacher in a local school. She was 19 at that time. Old father was mostly sick, and she had to arrange his medicines. His pension was hardly enough to feed them. Now she is working in an office of a company. The circumstances are slightly better than they were.

Bharat and Bharati do want to get married and start a new life in their own world, but the bondage of families is the main hindrance. He knows that his old parents and young brother wait for the money he sends, and she knows that it would not take long for her father to die of his sickness if she decided to leave the house and go with Bharat.

Suddenly, our hero's face begins to beam; he notices her slow approach. He gets to his feet. She seems to be in a hurry. "My father is in Bombay hospital. I will have to go," she said hurriedly. She had a kind of pain for him in her eyes. She knew that she was not doing much for him, and she also knew that Bharat was the boy she had wanted to spend her life with. Soon, she was gone.

One week later, our hero was informed by his colleague that Bharati was getting married to a person who was a very senior officer in her office. For sometime, he didn't believe what he had heard, but then he composed himself.

A Classic Love Story

2011-11-01T02:35:00.000-07:00

This is the story about how I met my nearest and dearest, it truly is a classic love story. You really can meet people in the most strangest of circumstances, not everyone meets via facebook or some dating website. In hindsight I actually think that I was very lucky or perhaps it was just fate that bought me and my wife together. I hope you enjoy the read.

I have always had a soft spot for dogs, mainly because my parents always seemed to have one as I was growing up. At the age of twenty-five, I decided to own my own dog and went to visit my local animal sanctuary. I soon spotted this very cute canine and immediately knew that this was the dog for me.

Her name was Cassie, she was a very excitable dog and could not stop jumping up and down, it seemed that she was extremely happy to meet me. Cassie took a while to settle in to her new home and was a little bit naughty at times. I realised that what she required was a lot of attention and a lot of walks.

On one of these walks I got chatting to quite a pretty young lady. She asked me the name of the dog and stated that she had often noticed me taking her for walks. I must admit that I had not once noticed her. It was quite a short conversation but I left feeling that this lady had an interest in me.

Over the next few weeks I seemed to bump in to her on a regular basis, she stated on one occasion that she was my stalker, I was quite happy to have her as a stalker!

This lady seemed quite confident and one particular morning she started to ask me a lot of questions:

What is your name?

Where do you live?

Where do you work?

How would you like to go on a date with me?

I could not believe it and without hesitation agreed. This woman is now my wife, how bonkers is that?

My advice for people who may be on the look for love, is to keep positive as it will happen if you get your face out there and are happy to chat to people.

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The Twilight Book Set - A Vampire Love Story

2011-11-01T01:39:00.000-07:00

If you're an enormous lover of enchanting fantasy books, you should certainly obtain the Twilight book collection. This selection encompasses four books authored by Stephenie Meyer, of which three of them have been turned into films.

The four books that make up the Twilight Saga are called Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.

These 4 different books portray the world of a young girl called Isabella Swan and a young man called Edward Cullen. They are the two principal figures in the novels and we discover how they first met, the way they're drawn to each other as well as precisely what makes their connection intrinsically different compared to most couples who have just entered into a relationship.

These works of fiction can be identified as being written in the style of Gothic fantasy considering the fact that we are told that Edward Cullen is a vampire as well as the interesting detail that he will never get old. In reality, he shouldn't be so interested in the youthful young lady Bella simply because she's human. This factor should make her not merely his foe but, more importantly, his prey. Vampires commonly feed on the blood of humans but we find out that the Cullen family does not live their lives in this way.

The whole way that this family attempts to live along side the human world is what helps to make this selection of books very enjoyable. This is not your bog standard romance story concerning a boy and a girl. There are numerous major problems en route and we are taken on the journey and discover how these two young lovers cope with everything that life throws in their path.

Once you starting reading the very first chapter of the first novel, you will not want to put it down until you have reached the final page. You can further increase your enjoyment of these stories by purchasing the film versions that have been made. You can buy Twilight the movie as well as the New Moon DVD online today.

Find out more about the Twilight Collection of books. If you enjoy the films you can now buy the New Moon DVD online today.

Another Kind Of A Fairy Tale Love Story

2011-10-17T02:21:00.000-07:00

The Adventures Of An Astronaut Monkey

"The sweetness of doing nothing & cuddling only the one you fancy all your life! Oh, wouldn't that be so great and fun?" a strange talking monkey ask to a Princess of the land. "Of course it sure would and not only that, it would really make you feel so good and comfy as well, hmmmm", with a sweet smile of reply and with her very delicate graceful glance, she stretches out her right arm and tenderly caresses the monkey's right ear with her soft fingers, which gives tingling sensation to his senses. "Mmmm", a low weak sigh of relief and comfortable sound given back to her. A peaceful smile written all over his face while eyes are mischievously watching her every moves. An animal instinct from craving of the food he fancy but had left himself starving and thirsty in this Lost Island of Nowhere. He woke up one day in a dessert and as he walks to find his way, he ran vigorously when he thought he heard a sea wave from the south. He headed straight to it, with his left eye now so blurry and could not see clearly the beauty of this blue ocean. Though his right eye was shooting with pain caused by his sudden fall from the sky, as he remembered, he took off from the jet as instructed, but now his right eye was totally blind, yet he still managed to run fast to reach the ocean. But as he approached the open sea, the water was so clear that he began to dip his barefoot on it but was surprised of what he saw. He saw his reflection. He is a monkey.

"It worked the experiment, really worked!" His thoughts cheers with him wonderfully. He just wanted to relax and calm himself. He sat down by the shore, he closed his eyes and now slowly, the headache and pain on his right eye gradually vanished. The nerve endings surrounding his right eyes receive blood supply that is now continuously flowing through his veins. His heart which beat so fast becomes calm. He then managed to open his eyes and he can now appreciate the beauty of the blue water in front of him. He got up and then started to approach the ocean to splash in, but it stopped him when he noticed a lady struggling to get up. She is the Princess of this Lost Island of Nowhere. Every day, she comes to the ocean to swim but she cannot swim. She does only to give herself the enjoyment of dreaming that one day she will meet her king and brought her out away from this island that had left her captive for several years now. The strange people in this island kept her here because they need her beauty to shine on them. The people in this island give her all her wishes except that she cannot leave, she should stay. She knew at the back of her mind that she does not belong there. Although she receives all the luxury she can ask for, she knew in her heart that she misses something. She just cannot figure it out yet what it is that even though she cannot swim she keeps coming to this ocean and always looking afar. She believes in her heart that there is another world beyond that blue ocean.

He knew that if he will approach the lady and help her get up safely on the shore, how would he, he is a monkey. "I would scare her off!" his mind argues to himself. But he looked around and everybody is busy, no one notices the princess. He bravely approached her and when the princess shouted for help, his hand was ready to catch her and brought her on the shore. The princess must have hurt herself so bad that all she could think of is to have herself on the shore and did not even notice that a monkey had helped her.

He assisted her to sit down and just watched her. He noticed how beautiful she was and has wanted her for himself.:"But not in this world, I am a monkey" he murmured to himself. The princess looked up and she was surprised that a monkey helped her. But she was not scared at all. She found this monkey harmless. He got white fur and smart deep brown eyes which are now locked so curious staring on her shapely body. Her cotton shirt now soaked and wet baring her sexy hips and full rounded breasts.

She smiled at him so sweetly and she appreciated his help. That was the day it started. The adventures of the astronaut monkey had begun.

Every now and then the Princess has a day to look onto. She makes sure to find quality time spending her day with her new found friend in the island, this white mischievous monkey.
She found him very funny and adorable. There is no dull moment when she is with him. She learns to swim because of him. She cannot imagine that every time the monkey began to splash on the water, he swims like a frog. He jumps, he can go deep down the water without worry of drowning. She enjoys the company of this amazing animal. Where he came from, definitely she had no idea. She just thought that perhaps he is lost too, like herself. She woke up one day and here she found herself she is the Princess of this Lost Island of Nowhere. But spending time to this monkey lets her not bother herself to ask why she is here in this island at the moment. All she can think of now is to spend quality time with her new friend. "I am not worry at all anyways this monkey talks, and he is smart, I kind a like his company, he never bore me", she thought deeply on this but then again she had this wish that one day she will be out from this Lost Island of Nowhere.

In another universe there lives a gorgeous Queen. She is known as a mother, a sister, a friend and they all call her as the Queen of All the Cookies That Is. One thanksgiving night she gathered all her children and all the people. Everybody has all their fun and eat their heart out celebrating this precious moment with their kind and loving Queen.

When the party was over the Queen went up to her glorious tower. She went straight to her comfortable and soft bed to sleep the night away and look forward for the coming new day. "Children and the people in my universe are all happy they have all what they needed to be happy about", her thoughts content her but at the same she quietly spoke to herself "I wonder whether there is another universe like ours? I wish I could have a chance to get a glimpse of it...."

Her thoughts and wishes caught the attention of the powerful Force that was very active at that moment. The following day, she never gets up. She remains sleeping for years...Her children and her people continue to lavish their Cookie Universe through the loving grace of their Queen that bestowed love and care on them. This Cookie Universe becomes known to all other universe and at present so busy receiving all kinds of creatures to their land. She becomes the wealthiest and famous universe in the whole galaxy.

Capt. Cake of the Limbo universe, a universe which is around 6 billion stars away from the Cookie universe was assigned to protect the Galaxy. He is the bravest and the brilliant astronaut in his primetime. For years Capt. Cake experimented on training monkeys as pilots and astronauts. He was very successful on achieving this and then he came up on another breakthrough on having an astronaut monkey to fly but with the mind of the real human being. He completed this special machine and said to himself that he should make the exploration by himself first. Once succeeded with this mission he will sit as the crown king of the Limbo Universe.

All the planets in the Limbo Universe cheered on him when his super jet set on. The Limbo super jet reached a space from where an astronaut monkey was ready to fly and explore the galaxy but with the special gadget and chemicals injected to his veins that his brain is somehow connected to a real human brain. This chemicals and gadget injected to the monkey's veins will serve as a connector and bridge to another body that has the same content injected. A wave like particles which is not seen by the naked eye will transmit and receive information to and from the body to the other living body.

Capt. Cake went to sit to his unique invention machine. His officers helped him, injected the same special gadget and chemicals that was also given to the monkey. His eyes are left open but he was sent to sleep deeply. He will be aware on everything that the monkey will see, feel and experience during the exploration but his human body will remained safe and seated on his machine.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.....the monkey's rounded jet sets off. Then the monkey is instructed to jump off....and he did.

For several days, since he landed to this Lost Island of Nowhere, he never saw anything that interests him at all. The land is very rich but it lacks life. The only best thing happens every day in his world as a monkey is the Princess of the land. He promised himself to chase the princess wherever universe she belongs to. He will be crowned King of Limbo Universe once he finished this mission, so he intended to bring his chosen queen to his palace. He knows the monkey's body won't last long to live in this island. The chemical is set for only a week time then the monkey's body dies. But the gathered facts that took place in the event since the monkey landed until the monkey's body wears off will stay recorded to Capt. Cake's brain as vividly as if he experienced it all by himself. That is the beauty of his new breakthrough invention. And it worked. All the planets in his universe will be very proud of what he had accomplished. All human beings of the galaxy will be safe in time of war if there is any anyways....

"It's time", his mind wonders as the monkey sits under the coconut shade where he waits for the Princess to come. He becomes weak now. He chose just to sit and wait for his princess. As soon as the princess arrived, he expressed his thoughts to her the beauty and sweetness of just doing nothing but only cuddling the one he fancy.

They just sit there together side by side. After few minutes he began to struggle, his body trembled and his temperature went down because the chemical has expired and is totally gone now. The Princess gently brought his head near her right chest. Slowly he looked up and once again stared on her beautiful face and said. "I can't explain to you what magic happened with me with you in this island but you really make me feel something and I will search for you all my life". I will find you and when I do you will remember me once you looked on my eyes, you knew it's me", and then with eye opened, he's gone. Her heart sobbed with loneliness but she was touched by this monkey and gave her faith that one day they will meet again in another universe.

"It's time, Capt. Cake, It's time", the first officer woke him as the alarm clock beeped. Capt. Cake wakes up feeling like his eyes are full with sands. His first officer put eye drops on both eyes. He closed them, and relaxed awhile and then automatically the events rewind by his mind. He remembers everything. No doubt he is again into mission but this time to search for the Princess and she will be the queen for the Limbo Universe.

He has this strong feeling that the Princess is there, somewhere waiting for him. So he bounded a journey to travel around the galaxy to search for her, but his first stop is to land to the Cookie Universe. He landed to the Cookie Universe and all the children cheer with joy. Capt. Cake is known to the entire galaxy. He went straight ahead to the tower where the Queen of All Cookies That Is has been sleeping for years, to give his honor to her kingdom. One of the children opened the queen's room for him. He could not believe his own eyes. Lying there is the Princess of the Lost Island of Nowhere. She is beautifully sleeping so deeply and peacefully with mouth half opened. He has this urge right away to give her a kiss. He sat on her left side, he bended his head and give her a long kiss. In split seconds she opened her eyes and there she saw those smart deep brown eyes and truly she remembers.

For few minutes she has held him near her right chest and he had told her "I will come back and get you out from this Lost Island of Nowhere and you will remember me once you laid your eyes on me". She gathered herself up carried the limp body of the monkey in her arms and walked straight to the blue sea. Slowly, she went as deep as she could still reach the ground. She lifted her arm a bit to kiss the monkey's lips lightly and then slowly and gently she dropped her arms, she released the monkey's body and let it float on the ocean. She floated too and had found herself lying on her soft bed now steady looking on this man's eyes and kissing her so sweetly. She experienced a glimpse of an adventure while she was sleeping with the adventurous and mischievous astronaut monkey.

Capt. Cake and the Queen of All Cookies That Is held and kissed each other sweetly and lovingly with their eyes opened. They both know and understand the adventures they shared each other in that Lost Island of Nowhere...They do not need to talk about it. They look for the NOW. The success and happiness for the unity of their universe.....

The story may be in some way have similarities to actual events happened in real life only it is written in a humor-like romance and fantasy. Love happens anywhere, anytime. We give love to those who are ready to love and be loved. There is love on air everywhere.
http://lovebytesonair.blogspot.com/2011/02/flying-monkeys.html

Jaci Rae-My True Love Story

2011-10-15T02:17:00.000-07:00

My name is Jaci Rae and this is my true love story. When I first began "serious" dating, everyone was supposed to be "the one." At least that's what everyone told me. 'He's the one for you.' 'When are you two going to get married?' 'Has he popped the question yet?' What many people never saw was the inner turmoil of the relationship and the way the man treated me behind the scenes.

Society sees single people as sad and alone, yet whenever I was in a relationship, I was deeply lonely. However, the underlying current of feeling lonely when I was in a relationship was much less when I was single, only now I had the added value of feeling rejected, too. Why? How could I be lonely when I had "the one" sitting next to me and how, when I was single and alone, could I feel less lonely than when I was with "the one?"

Other questions constantly raced through my mind such as: Was I always the wrong person? Why wasn't I ever Mrs. Right?

To give you more insight into me and how I ended up in a string of wash out relationships with men who broke my heart and my bank account many times you need a little understanding about my background.

I grew up poor with the added feeling of being very unwanted. I lived in a house that wasn't a home, filled with drug addicts and predators and I was the child with a key around my neck. My Mom wasn't home much because she had to work to support two children as a single mother without child support so I grew up feeling very rejected and alone. Do you see the pattern?

Don't blame my Mom for what happened to me. If it hadn't been that way, I wouldn't have grown up to be who I am today. My brother succumbed to the drug life by the age of seven and I said no. There but the Grace of God go I, really. I grew up with my older brother seeking me out for help and guidance, and calling me Mom most of the time.

His escape at a very young age was drugs and alcohol and mine was food. Either I didn't eat at all, acting out my anorexia or I ate ravenously, something I still struggle with today. Food was the only thing I could control in my own life and the way I learned to punish myself for being so "bad." Why did I think I was bad? My reasoning as a child was; if I were a good girl, no one would harm me. Therefore, I must be very bad and I was being punished for being so.

By the age of eight, I started on a journey to discover why these men sought to harm me and why I was so ugly, stupid, fat and horrible. I ravenously read every book I could find at the school library during lunch, and magazines at home. Once I was older and had a job (age 12) I bought books and music, even though I needed clothing and food more. It started me on a journey that hasn't stopped; my love of what makes people tick and how relationships work or don't.

Let's move to events that are more recent. With all my education and studying, I still ended up in the "wrong" relationship. Why? I had changed my pattern, or so I thought. I picked people with different backgrounds, different careers, different education levels, different socio-economic backgrounds and different looks. What was wrong? I always seemed to pick the man who would treat me the worst. The "good" ones only wanted to be my friends.

During that time, I was sought after by friends and family, and people who were referred to me to help them understand themselves and their relationships. Why was I able to help them and not myself? I knew the basic rule that I must love myself before anyone else would love me, but I knew that I could never love myself. I was too ugly. Too fat. Too stupid. In addition to any other horrible adjectives I could throw at myself. So I hid myself even further.

The laws of attraction that most of us have heard, but practically no one adheres too, ruled over me. I only attracted those that would hurt me the most because I spent most of my spare time hurting myself mentally with words and physically with food. I hadn't changed the way I felt about myself, so how could I expect the men in my life to change the way they treated me?

One day, while I was sitting with my then-boyfriend a revelation came over me. The words I had read about, studied and preached to others hit me full in the face. I deserve better and I am not junk. This man, who had been a dear friend for years, was my boyfriend now and he was horrible to me! He was a great friend but sucked at the boyfriend gig.

As I sat in the room with a bunch of NFL people, I realized many of these men and women needed to score points with themselves and their "loved" ones and not just put a show on so others thought they did. That's when the title, "Winning Points With The Woman In Your Life One Touchdown at a Time - How to Score For Men and Women" came to my mind.

At first, I fought writing this book. How could I possibly mix football and love? I wasn't even a huge football fan! However, once I sat down to do so it came out quickly (I learned a lot about football along the way!).

The next step I took to write the book was to interview men and women on the street to find out what their thoughts were about relationships and what made them crazy in them. A year and a half of research later I started the real journey of self-discovery. I wasn't the horrible, awful, ugly person I believed deep in my soul I was. I was a kind person who struggled with her weight, but that didn't mean I didn't deserve the best.

It was also at that point that I realized I was much happier being single than being in a relationship and I started to practice the self-love I always spoke and wrote about. For two years, I wrote and I was happy - elated actually. People would stop me on the street just to say how much I glowed. It was amazing.

They say love comes when you least expect it, and that's what happened to me. It was during my time of happy singleness, that I met the man who would turn out to be my soul mate. We talked for hours and I mean truly talked. I had never really had such in-depth conversation with anyone!

Nevertheless, I ran scared. A month later, I was in a relationship with a man who was fun but a player. After a month with him, I realized what I was doing and headed as fast as I could in the other direction. I called up the other man and we went on our first date. He was kind and sensitive (gorgeous to boot) and he even sidestepped me from doggy poop on our hike.

We spent the entire afternoon and well into the wee hours of the next morning just talking and laughing. However, when I left him for my car I knew I wasn't going to date him. My mom called me the next day and asked me how the date had gone. I told her what a wonderful time I had and how wonderful he was. I then stated firmly, "...but I am not going to date him." She said, "oh...how sad."

Something clicked inside me at that moment and I turned around and said, "No way! I am going to date him." And that's just what I did. In that instance I made a choice (and you can too) to change my dating pattern. I was going to go for the man I wasn't attracted too. The man who didn't have the element of "danger," which is what seemed to be underlying in all the other men I had dated.

That was nearly two years ago and I am still totally in love as he is with me. We literally spend almost all of our time together (we work side by side as well) and while we have occasional disagreements, we always apologize. We are a normal couple after all! He really is the most incredible man I have ever known.

So what changed and how can you change your life so you can attract the one person that will treat you like gold? I go over that a lot in Winning Points With The Woman In Your Life One Touchdown at a Time (Simon and Schuster - Fireside). Despite the title, this book is for both sexes and is not all about Football. While I do use football language in the book, it's not a football book per se.

But the crux of it is this, first your must make a decision to love yourself and treat yourself with respect and second you must make a decision to change your life, which includes your love life. It's that basic. No one can give you a magic pill or potion and no words can change anything in your life until you make a decision and commitment to yourself to change.

A final word...is my life perfect? Nothing is perfect, but I am perfectly in love. Do I still struggle with my self-esteem? Yes. It's like any addictive behavior. When you are addicted to self-abusive behavior, it's something you must keep in check. However, I do love myself and I don't talk to myself as I used to. I also believe I deserve love and respect.
Do I still struggle with my weight? Yes. That disease will be a life-long struggle. Just like an alcoholic, I have to take it one day at a time.

I encourage you to work towards the best relationship that you deserve. Read, study, but most of all learn about you and affirm yourself. I wish you a great journey in life, love and happiness.

Thank you for reading about me and my life. I hope it helped you in some way gain a better understanding of yourself and perhaps take a step to start changing your life and the way you are loved and love. Blessings, Jaci Rae

Jaci Rae's grit and determination have brought her from an impoverished childhood to a career as an award-winning singer, No. 1 best-selling author and entrepreneur who has toured around the world. Jaci shares her down-to-earth advice as the relationship advisor/expert/dating coach for igniteromance.com, savvymiss.com, lovingyou.com, loveisgreat.com and lsinglescafe.net

She is the author of The Indie Guide to Music, Marketing and Money, as well as Winning Points With The Woman In Your Life One Touchdown At A Time, Shop for a Day with Jaci Rae How to Get Almost Anything for Free (not published yet) and Collista's Search for the True Meaning of Christmas (not published yet).

Jaci spends her spare time working on her music, writing and hanging out with family and friends. For more information, go to

http://www.christmaswithlove.com

http://www.shopforaday.com or

http://www.jacirae.com

A Great American Love Story

2011-10-10T02:14:00.000-07:00

A Great American Love Story

The year was 1932, the year air conditioning was invented and the Zippo lighter. Americans were in the throes of the Great Depression and many were out of work and standing in long bread lines. Times were tough.

The year 1932 would also mark the beginning of a great American love story that would last for 75 years and still be going strong as of this writing! This is not your typical love story, not by a long shot. But it is indeed a story filled with love, and comradeship, heartbreak, sacrifice, and sheer joy.

It is the story of three American men who have been best buddies since the ages of 12, and 13, when first they met and started playing sandlot baseball together. Little did they know at the time, that their new friendship would last throughout all their high school days, World War II, and continue to flourish throughout their lives, even though geographical locations would eventually separate them physically.

But true friendship survives distance and circumstances. These three men are living proof of that. They share a unique bond that most of us would envy. They are emotional doppelgangers of each other.

They started out in those prewar years, playing sports - varsity baseball, basketball and football, all of them excelling or lettering in one sport or another. This was their life. Life was good despite the times. They were young and all that mattered was sports and listening to, and dancing to, the sounds of the Big Bands.

Living in south New Jersey, it was only a hop, skip and a jump to the Jersey shore where they would go to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City to listen to Benny Goodman and other well known musicians. Sports, Big Band music and the three of them together. It just didn't get any better than this.

One of the men is my dad, Jack "6 for 6" Letzgus as we call him, having earned that monicker for getting a hit in 6 successive turns at bat (four singles and 2 triples). He played semi-professional ball, in one game even hitting three triples, tying a national record. Who knows what heights he would have achieved had it not been for the war. As his friend Ted Lewin said "Jack, the war interfered with our baseball careers." My dad was described as a husky third sacker, although later, years of suffering from a very bad duodenal ulcer would see his slender but well built body diminish to a mere 132 pounds on his 5'10" frame.

Our next door neighbor had commented that "Poor Jack is going downhill. I can see it each day. He won't be around long." If only she were alive today to see him a mere 2 ½ years away from his 90th birthday. She wouldn't believe it. I can't believe it either. He's even healthier today than he was in his twenties through his sixties. The adage "You can't keep a good man down" is apropos in this situation.

The school years were now coming to a close. They would graduate from Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, New Jersey, in 1938. But one of the three is a bit younger than my dad and the other friend. His graduation year would be different...or at least it should have been.

Jim Dunn is the baby of the three, a mere 86 now compared to my dad's and Ted's 87 years. He had skipped a grade in elementary school and for some reason he would have graduated a half a year ahead of my dad and Ted. School calendars were a bit different back then and they had half years.

Jim wasn't going to graduate without his two best buddies though, so he did something that most people would not do. He purposely failed a grade so that he would be put back and graduate in 1938 along with my dad Jack, and Ted. Most kids are anxious to get out of school. Not Jim. He wasn't going anywhere without his pals.This is indeed a love story!

The three of them continued to pal around, play sports, earn a living and be happy, carefree young men. Then it happened. World War II. The Big One. This would be the first separation of these three dear friends.

Their colorful love story takes on a different hue now as members of the fair sex slowly steal into their lives.

Jim went into the Navy, positioned off the coast of Normandy on the USS Texas during the D-Day invasion. He also served in the Pacific. Jim had met his future wife, Dorothy, in the little town in which they all grew up, aptly named Fairview. It wasn't long before sports took somewhat of a backseat to the feminine charms of Dorothy. They soon would marry.

Ted had also been distracted from all things sports as he matured into his older teens. He had met a lovely young girl named Ruth and they married before Ted joined the Merchant Marine. The years would take him around the world but his heart was always back in Fairview with the lovely Ruth.

My dad, Jack, received the Greetings from Uncle Sam and soon found himself drafted into the US Army, stationed in Texas and Louisiana before being shipped out to what was supposed to be duty in the Philippines. Fate stepped in, however, and steered the ship and his life in a much different direction.

The Japanese had attacked the Philippines so my dad's ship was diverted to Australia where he would soon win a marital victory, not necessarily a martial one. There, in Melbourne, Australia, he met the love of his life, my mother, the great Australian beauty, and dancer, Iris Robertson.

The times being uncertain, as they are during war years with no one knowing what would happen in this unstable world, whirlwind courtships, and marriages were not uncommon. Within four months of meeting, my mother and father married.

During these years, the best buddies were settling down with their wives and the children started arriving.

I was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. My dad was sent to Hollandia, New Guinea, and after a long time, was shipped back home to the US, where my mother and I joined him 8 months later. He had been away from home for almost 5 years, a sacrifice hard to imagine today.

Jim and his wife had four children and relocated to Arizona precipitated by the poor health of their middle daughter who suffered from severe asthma. The dry, desert heat would help her, they reasoned, and off they went - another rent in the rich tapestry of the three friends' lives, but a necessary one.

Meantime, enhancing the love story, Ted and his wife Ruth had three children, all boys whom they named Jack, Jim and Ted! Ted, Ruth and boys moved to California, motivated by a wonderful job opportunity for Ted. He landed a job with Shiley Corporation where he invented the blood oxygenator used in cardiac surgery. Years later he would be named California Inventor of the Year.

With Jack still living in New Jersey, Jim and family in Arizona, and Ted and family in California, the visits were not as often now as any of them wanted. They stayed in touch though by telephone and letters and the occasional visit. How wonderful it would have been for them had they been able to avail themselves of the computer technology with webcams of today, but none of them can be persuaded to try it.

My parents' marriage would last for 50+ years, ending only because of the devastating disease of Supranuclear Palsy that would claim my mother's life and make my dad the first widower of the three friends, a most unwanted distinction.

Sadly, Jim's wife, Dorothy was the next of the wives to pass away, she of cancer, after 50+ years of marriage.

It wasn't long before Ted would join their ranks of widower, when his wife of 50+ years, Ruth, passed away a few hours before 9/11.

The three best buddies were now widowers and living far apart from one another. How strange that all three of them would outlive their beloved wives when statistically women outlive men. After Ted's wife passed away, Jim remarked how incredible it would be if all three of them could share a house together and share the rest of their lives together, to be close together again, to play a little ball together in their twilight years. But life happens and we all must make the most of what we have left.

Jim now spends his time running marathons and invariably comes home with a gold medal. So far, he's won 9 of them. He quips that there aren't many 86-year-olds to compete with him. Ted spends his days golfing, and reading, and enjoying the California lifestyle. My dad, Jack, who is as witty and humorous as he ever was, spends his time writing poems and limericks and recently had a short story that he had written during the war, bound and printed. These men are not going gently into that good night. They are an inspiration to all who know them.

Jim visits Ted in California from time to time. Before their wives passed away, Jim and Ted and wives visited my dad and mother in Florida where they had relocated years before. It was a wonderful reunion. Their conversation was centered mainly around, of course, sports! No one knew it at the time but this would probably be the last time the three best pals would be together.

My dad hates to fly. So the three of them confine their contact to phone calls and letters. But what wonderful phone calls they are. They can spend hours on the phone talking about "the good old days" of their youth, their sports accomplishments and wonderful reminiscences of 75 years of profound friendship, of three lives well lived, and well loved. The love story that began all those years ago continues, and may it continue for many more years for these three remarkable gentlemen. I love them all!

Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis is the author of the book "I Am Your Disease (The Many Faces of Addiction)" published by Outskirts Press. You can read about, and purchase the book at http://www.iamyourdisease.com

I am a retired medical transcriptionist and radio DJ who also did voiceovers for TV. Married, with one living son, having lost my youngest son Scott, who was a paramedic and an RN to the disease of addiction. Happily married for 40 years to Jack, 8th grade science teacher. My oldest son Dale is soon to be a graduate student in Environmental Sciences.

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2011-10-09T11:27:00.000-07:00

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Iconic Love Story

2011-10-05T02:13:00.000-07:00

The tale is legendary, heart warming and set in a stunning location. Based on true events, the story of Captain Corelli has captures the hearts of millions everywhere. Like every iconic love story ever made, the setting is simple yet dramatic. During World War 2, the local Doctors daughter of the small Greek Island of Kefalonia, waves goodbye to her fisherman fiance as he heads out to join the war effort.

Meanwhile Captain Corelli and his troops from Italy settle into the island with tragic consequences. When their paths cross, the tale unfolds as they fall passionately in love despite the circumstances and overcome the huge obstacles they meet.

At least they do in the film. The book however takes a slightly different approach and is less "chicken soup for the soul" and more of a hard hitting war story.

Despite this there is no denying that the location for this truly memorable story could not have been better. Kefalonia looks every inch the dramatic location needed for such a turbulent story. Ragged cliffs guard the white sands and the pearly blue sea. The island has become synonymous romance and love and since the Hollywood film hit the screens, tourism here has boomed.

And it is easy to see why. The lush green lands of Kefalonia are the perfect to create your own fairytale love story. The striking sunsets are guaranteed to set the most romantic mood and the ambience is one of cool sophistication. Coupled with the low key vibe and the natural laid back pace of the island and you are guaranteed to fall head over heels, passionately and unreservedly in love.

Hidden coves and under water caves are free and available to be explored. Stunning turquoise waters ripple beneath so crystal clear you would think it had been filtered. The pastel and white wash buildings compliment the traditional and unspoilt castles and medieval ruins.

Lassi is the islands most popular resort which is purpose built around two long beaches and small coves making this ideal for your romantic break for two. However if your looking for your postcard destination for a holiday romance then there is no denying the outstanding resort of Fiskardo is perfect.

Let's set the scene, a morning stroll along the waterfront where you stop for breakfast in a small and traditional Greek Taverna. Once you've ate, you can head down to the bay hand in hand and get a small boat for the afternoon. Floating across the waters you are likely to come across a private secluded bay where you can bob in the sunlight with no disruption. When its time to head back you can find yourself a quiet bar, cafe or even something a little livelier where you can watch the sunset with your loved one with a local wine or a fruity cocktail. The night is then yours wine and dine away until the next morning when you can continue your very own love story.

The island is almost magical as an untouched taste of the real Greece. Holidays to Kefalonia will whisk you off your feet and absorb you in the paradise it has to offer.

So if you have read the book or seen the film you won't be short on inspiration for that romantic break, ideal wedding location or even the perfect honeymoon destination. Holidays to Kefalonia are unbeatable in the eyes of Cupid.

Short Love Story

2011-10-02T02:07:00.000-07:00

Le voyage - A short love story

The seas have calmed down after a stormy night. The waves have bid the sand back ashore. The sun has risen without any struggle; the fear of the unknown has walked past the dawn.

She walks slowly with her hair swiftly swaying with the cool cherry filled scent breeze marking the start of summer. She feels as light as a ball of cotton dancing into the midst of wilderness. A voice inside her heart is leading her to the same spot by the beach where she thought she would never set her feet again; but today is the day, she knows it. She believes she's ready, ready to face the past that slammed the door of a starry future, a future she thought was the realization of her dream from a not so distant present.

She stops where two gigantic beach stones are firmly set. She closes her eyes just as when the sun starts to rush below a layer of clouds signaling the nearing twilight.

"Find me if you can!" Those were the last words she heard from Brei, the only man whom she ever loved. They were high school sweethearts. Brei was the only man she thought could make funny faces but still looked so dashingly handsome. There were days he would mimic what he called, a sick monkey after eating loads of bananas, a dehydrated fish, a starving crocodile.....and the list goes on.

It was also the beginning of summer. It was their first summer break on their first year in a university. They were both taking up Political Science; a course they believed was the best to prepare them for a Law degree. They both wanted to become lawyers after their respective fathers. She and Brei were full of dreams, prepared to defy what could the world wrongly delivers to them.

The sun was just about to set when she and Brei decided to go by the beach after a short exchange of stories they have recently read. They were running and laughing, chasing each other as they walked toward the beach until they reached the site where the two distinct rocks rest. The water was high that day, the waves were restless, but the two young lovers didn't mind what was going on around them. They just wanted to enjoy the priceless beauty of the world going by.

The day seemed endless. The angels in heaven could hear their laughter and were enticed to play as well. It was Brei's turn to hide. She closed her eyes and started counting," one two, three, hide quick for the goddess will turn you to stone once she catches you amiss!"

"Brei....yahoo! I'm coming! Her voice started to tremble after a few minutes of desperation for not being able to find Brei. Few minutes became an hour... and more hours... Playful shouts had become screams until the screams became sobs, sobs that then became a complete silence. She could not remember how she got back to her parents' house and the rest. She heard screams of deep pain, sobs rooted from the heart, but she could not tell where they were coming from, Brei was gone, and she never saw him again. Her heart was looking for answers, but her questions remained unanswered and got washed away by the furious waves.

She knows deep in her heart that today is the time to let go. Let the pain from the past be cast away; to move on to a place she believes could make her whole again, to a place where in time she may see Brei again; to a place where she could play with the angels who played with her and Brei on that fateful day. A place where there's no room for sorrow.

Brei is standing by the shore, flowers on his hand. "I love you, goodbye and till we meet again..."

It's been a year since his beloved was washed away with the rushing torrent of waves. They were playing hide and seek and he hid hastily behind a dilapidated hut near the beach; he didn't realise that his ladylove would go and search for him behind the "couple rocks", the two rocks firmly seated on the deeper part of the sea. He thought he had been hiding so long that he emerged himself only to find out that there's no one searching for him anymore. Everything started like a dream but ended a nightmare. She's gone, gone forever, gone with the waves on that unforgettable day.

Brei throws the flowers with the hope that she will get them through the angels that played with them on that day. "Goodbye my love...I love you forever and beyond..." Brei turns his back and starts to walk by the beach towards his home. He knows he has to go on, to follow "their dreams," to walk the road for a journey, the journey that he now has to finish on his own.

Making Money From Your Sad Love Story

2011-09-25T02:01:00.000-07:00

When your heart gets broken it feels as though there could not possibly be any advantages for you in the deal. Whether snubbed, lied to or simply left alone, there is a bright light at the end of the tunnel. Writing down your sad love story not only has a cathartic effect, there might also be some profits in the healing process as well.

When you write what you feel it is often almost as if you were playing therapist to yourself. Many people find that as the read and re-read what they have written there is a valuable host of information about themselves that they would never have come in contact with had it not been for their pens. Keeping a journal or diary has long been known to be a very healing and soul soothing form of self-searching, but recording the events that lead to a break-up or other form of loss has is often overlooked in the throes of heartbreak.

Jilted lovers can look at the relationship from a third party perspective and get insight into the real problems within the union. They also learn invaluable things about themselves, such as whether or not they entered the relationship with self-esteem that was lower than the ideal, or if they were too needy within the union. Those that have lost a loved one to death find that paper supplies an adequate sounding board for all of the forgotten sentiments that they never took the time to express in life.

When you learn how to construct your words in a way that makes them suitable and interesting to other ears, you can share the lessons learned. Whether crafting a memoir or writing a semi-fictional piece that adequately details some of the major events in your sad love story, you are ultimately creating something that you can use as tool for growing and one that is worth sharing with others as they grow too. It is a well known fact that helping others and enjoying success of your own are great ways to get your life back on track after a rough bout with sorrow.

The best news is that there are a turn of markets out there waiting to turn your sad love story into solid gold. Numerous publishers of articles, books and e-books are currently offering submissions in nearly every genre. Getting past your sorrow may be easiest when you put pen to paper and write your troubles away.

All you need to know about how to make money from your sad love story now in our complete guide to write your own sad love story.

Money and Love - A Sad Love Story

2011-09-15T01:59:00.000-07:00

Are you living in a sad love story, because you just broke up with the love of your life? You were madly in love with the person and then all of the sudden you two broke up. How did it happen? There are two main reasons why people breakup so much, which this article will try to answer. So figure out why you broke up. Learn from the past and then forget about it so you can move on to bright happy future, where no sad love stories are allowed anymore.

Why do so many people breakup? Sad love stories are plentiful in this world. Relationships are very hard. You have to work at them, just like a job sometimes. You can't let them die, but if you are truly meant to be with someone, it shouldn't be that hard right? First of all, do you believe that true love is real? You better believe, because if you don't then you are pretty much guarantying yourself a life without it. True love exists and there is more than one person out there for everybody. You just have to find someone that is perfect for you, not perfect, but perfect for you.

And then once you find someone again that you know you really truly love, how do you make the love last? Well, money is one of the reasons that many people separate. Talk about money and how you handle finances. Learn to make better financial choices together. Ask each other how you view the future. Communicate with each other. Learn how to control your spending habits. Money is not evil, but loving money is evil. Be careful how you view money. Don't love money so much that you sacrifice your love for it. Don't let your love life, become a sad love story.

In relationships the love can die down. In the beginning you were all over each other. You could never get enough of each other, but now the spark has gone out. What happened? Again communication is key. You have to talk about the frequency of your love making. Perhaps, you are not loving your partner as much as they want you to. Try to find a compromise. Also, romance your partner outside the bedroom some more as well. Give them some compliments. After all is well and done, and you still don't find a compromise, then perhaps your true love is still out there and you just haven't met them yet. You can have a happy ending to your sad love story, just keep looking.

Relationships come and go, but you can find true love. Learn how to put the spice back into your relationship. Communication is huge when it comes to having a loving happy relationship. Talk about money and love making. It is very important to avoid a breakup, so just do it. Stay strong and learn from your past sad love stories, in order to have a happy ending.

Depressing love stories do not have to be your life. There is no great thing than love. You may feel helpless and like there is no hope for you, but that is just a lie. You can find true love. You can stop going through breakup after breakup. Yes, there are a lot of crazy people out there, but you just have to find your kind of crazy. There is someone out there waiting for you, you just have not met them yet. Remember, have faith and that you will turn your sad love story into a happy one.

Create Your Own Love Story

2011-09-08T01:55:00.000-07:00

If you want your relationship to soar and sing then you need to begin by accepting responsibility for where you are right now. You need to become the creator and author of your destiny. Just image what it would be like to have your own happily-ever-after love story. Hush for a moment the little critic inside of you that says, "It's not possible, or it's not for you."

Just take a few moments to imagine, in as much detail as you can, what that relationship would feel like, what it would look like, what you would do and say, what your partner would do and say.

Know that it is possible to have the "dream" come true. Not that we are going off to live in fantasy land, but here in reality we can have the relationship that we want and are willing to cultivate.

We begin by taking complete responsibility for our relationship at this moment. We completely give up blaming our partner or circumstances for anything. Blaming keeps us stuck and makes us powerless to improve things, since we must sit around waiting for our partner or our circumstances to change.

When we don't take responsibility for creating our own love story, we can sometimes get things backwards. We think that if our partner would only do such and such, we would feel more loving toward them. The problem is that loving feelings follow loving thoughts and actions. When we are critical and judgmental about our partner our loving feelings fly out the door.

Focusing instead on what we love and enjoy about our partner and on how we can show our love for them, in other words increasing our loving thoughts and actions, will increase our loving feelings. Some may say that this is not fair, that they want to be getting more love, not giving more. You need to decide if you will hold stubbornly to that position waiting for your partner to suddenly change (you also may want to consider how that has been working for you to this point) or if you will take charge and create the relationship that you want.

Next we decide to be happy and grateful with what is. We embrace and enjoy our life as it is now, knowing that what we want is just around the corner. There is an eternal truth that we reap what we plant. When we approach our life from a position of happiness and gratitude, we are going to have good and positive things flowing back to us.

When we become the kind of partner that we want to have, our partner is likely to respond in kind. When we think loving thoughts about our partner, when we look for creative ways to consistently show our love for them, when we let our partner know in respectful ways what we need and want from them, when we are grateful and happy with our partner and in life, then our love story will begin to unfold.

When we hold that image, of what we want in our relationship, in our mind, and we approach life in harmony with that ideal, then we are going to create our own love story.

What Is Your Love Story?

2011-08-24T01:49:00.000-07:00

Everyone has a 'story', right?

What I mean by that is that everyone has a set of beliefs about themselves and their relationship to everything else (love, money, luck, life, etc). Some stories look like this:

I cannot earn a lot of money right now because the economy is bad and because my former manager embezzled money from me so I can't trust anyone to work for me and......

But the real story that this person has deep within is:

I am not successful; I will never have what others have; I cannot count on anyone to be loyal to me....

These are her (or his) deeply held and sometimes even unconscious beliefs about her/himself. These beliefs, or this STORY will define how you show up in life! That's why it is so important to know your Love Story.

Your Love Story is the set of deeply held beliefs you hold about yourself in relation to love. These stories are usually formed very early in our lives, before we have the ability to understand the meaning we are giving to those experiences. As a result, they are often unconscious and we may not even know we have them! For example, one client, I'll call her Monica, struggles with intense fears of abandonment and will act in ways that push men away in her relationships. Monica was not really consciously aware of what her Love Story was or how it was formed until we worked together to transform her story.

By doing some guided visualization exercises, Monica was able to connect patterns in her relationships with some early life experiences that created her story that "people who I depend on for love always leave". Once she could identify her story, she was able to shift those old beliefs by using the strengths she had as a adult to 'rewrite' this story and come up with a new one. Her new story became, "I can't control what other people do, but I can make good choices to include loving, giving, healthy people in my life". Once she was able to change the old Love Story and create a new, more powerful one, Monica began to show up differently in her life. And guess what? She got different results!

Here are some other examples of Love Stories:

I am not safe so I have to build walls to keep away danger

I am not wanted or desired so I don't value myself enough

My needs are not important so I focus on taking care of your needs (and mine get neglected and then I become resentful)

Do you recognize any of these stories?

If not, what is yours?

A Love Story in Essence

2011-08-20T01:47:00.000-07:00

A movie can be good. However, seldom can a movie that is adapted from a novel gain acclaim. This does not mean that the movie is of low quality, but audiences expect more from movie adaptations.

In the year of 1999, German writer Gunter Grass won the Nobel Prize for his virgin novel The Tin Drum. For years, I had not finished it because it is indeed a river novel. However, I made up my mind to finish reading after I saw the movie The Tin Drum that directed by Volker Shlondorff.

After I saw the movie, I read the whole book and I find that both the movie and the book are quite good and the movie is even better. I believe that the success of this movie is mainly because that the director bravely trim some plots and details of the novel.

As we all know, Gunter Grass is a great linguist, artist and poet before writing novel. You will find that his novels reflect the culture and politics at his time. Also, he is a writer who has strong social responsibility. Thus, readers may find the backgrounds of his novels are rather complicated.

Hardly can I image that such an informative story be told in only 142 minutes. However, Volker Shlondorff did this and he did well. He broke the limitations set by Gunter Grass, found a visible clue for the movie and recreated the story.

You don not have to take too serious when you see the movie. To me, it is merely a love story, several love stories exactly. The first love story happens between the grandmother Anna and a man; the second love story happens between Annie and her two lovers; the third love story is about the hero Oscar and his lover, later his step mother Maria.

Truth About A Sad Love Story

2011-08-10T01:46:00.000-07:00

Falling in love is easy but leaving the one you love is hard. We never like a sad love story because we always want to picture out our love life as something that gives us purely happy thoughts. But this is never true and it will never be true if we talk about reality. In every love life and relationships, we always learn the hard way. It's always part of a person's experience to fall in love and get hurt. It's cool to know when even despite all the joy and pain you still get to be with the one you love but this does not always happen; some stories about love are just not meant to be that way.

When you think about love, you always get that sort of happy feeling. When you are in love, you get the butterflies. It's always a great emotion that sprouts out of a lonely and incomplete heart when love begins to bloom. But when things get tougher and harder, a different reaction is always expected. Some people think that things are always going to be smooth when it comes to their love story most especially if both persons love each other.

But if we consult the reality of life, a sad love story always has a place in everyone's lives. The imperfection of two people involved and the imperfection of life and the world makes this a possible thing to happen. Some people do end up with the one they love the most but they are never always happy; they get sad too. Others do not end up with the one whom they thought is meant for them but then they end up as the happiest person ever lived because they made the right choice.

A sad love story has its good and bad sides. And whatever it is, always remember that the key to keeping yourself safe and strong is accepting that even love has its downsides.

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Japanese Lacquerware Tells An Ancient Love Story

2011-08-05T01:32:00.000-07:00

There is a fascinating story to be discovered through a piece in Jacqueline Avant's fine art works collection. This has involved a vintage collection of mostly pre-modern Japanese lacquer wares on display in southern California not very long ago. The images which have been engraved on several beautiful pieces in the Avant Collection include references to the literature of the courts. Interpretations of poems appear on lacquer regularly from the 13th century to the present time. The Six Immortals (872-945 AD) in the preface to the "Kokinshu" anthology form the basis for early literary quotes in lacquer. By the 18th century, images from poetry about the seasons of romance, themes from court fiction, or images from noh drama held an important presence among lacquer designs. When the Avant Ono no Komachi "suzuribako" was produced, layers of reference had accumulated around a theme like Komachi's. Therefore, the sad story of Ono no Komachi is indeed an interesting one to reflect upon.

Komachi lived a life that became a legend in her own time and has grown since in popular fascination. She was a stunning beauty of a young woman. A number of interested young men attempted to gain her favor. However, Komachi was not interested in any of the men who tried to pursue her. According to the mythology which surrounded her, she informed one suitor that if he came to visit her one hundred times only then would she allow him his earnest wish. This man was madly in love with Komachi, so he agreed to the arrangement. After many visits, he began to feel confident about his chance of success in the end. Then there came a night when one of his parents died. He was summoned away for a time of mourning, so he could not visit Komachi on that occasion. When he returned to her, she promptly rejected him. Later, this man also died in a great soul-wrenching depression which was caused by the cruel way his lover had treated him. Consequently, Komachi spent the rest of her life alone. She lived beyond the age of one hundred as a destitute, old hag. Despite the enormous legend, there is very little in Ono no Komachi's original poetry to give details about her biography. There are poetic subjects of the spurning of a lover and the lifelong regrets about her fading beauty. In the end, her beauty was lost forever.

The design on one suzuribako- a container of brushes, ink stone, and ink stick -illustrates the famous Ono no Komachi at age one hundred in a Japanses play called "Komachi at the Gateway Temple." On the night of Tanabata, a celebration of the meeting of two constellations on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month, a priest from the temple Sekidera and his servant come near a hut near the mountains. The aged woman, known as "the ruin of Komachi," is supposed to reside there. This priest brings along children who are interested in the study of classic poetry. Their purpose is to request the interpretation of two of her very famous poems. One poem goes like this: "This abandoned house, shining in the mountain village. How many night has autumn spent there? Seeing the moonlight, spilling down through the trees, My heart fills to the brim with autumn." (Translation by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratami).

On the elegant lid of this container, Komachi smiles and reveals her rotted teeth. She is seated upon a straw raincoat and watching the moon over the faraway mountains. Her kimono is wrapped around her body in a loose way. The wardrobe also bears dragon roundels over a diaper pattern. All of these aspects make up a formal design that dates back to her noteworthy past in the imperial court of Japan. However, those glorious days are long gone in this sad portrait of an old woman with little comfort left in life. On this box her hut is situated before a brushwood fence with young pine trees in the front and a bamboo grove in the back. Both of these types of plants are symbolic in Japan of endurance through adversity. On the outer face of the box lid, the moon and clustered chrysanthemums are springing from a basket to Komachi's side. There are indicators of an early autumn which is in harmony with the seventh lunar month. It is interesting to remember that chrysanthemums likewise are symbolic of long life. This engraved portrait is a powerful reminder of the famous story of this once beautiful, young woman.... and her tragic, bitter fate.

Japanese lacquer collections are worth the time to study thoroughly, and then to reflect upon. In addition to their timeless beauty, they create a profoundly Asian atmosphere simply because of their historical reference. The Avant Collection is something only for the serious, wealthy collector to be sure. However, there are likely many fine replicated pieces which would suit your home or office very well. Take some time to learn what is available. You may be happily surprised!

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Love Story Theme

2011-07-22T01:27:00.000-07:00

The love story theme happened accidentally. Or so it seemed - but ultimately I came to believe my grandmother was prompting my writing from beyond the grave!

Why my belief? Because I had no sooner created the characters than they became independent of me - doing their own thing, ignoring the plans I had for them! It was my heroine especially who behaved so willfully - a heroine fashioned to a degree on my grandmother's character.

I'd best explain that grandma had been an actress who gave up the West End stage to marry a foreigner and live with him and his outlandish family in a castle in Czechoslovakia.

I had never understood why she did this, since she had lived for the theater, or why she often expressed her wish for me to write her life-story. It was long after she died that I realized hers had been a most unusual life. But I was no biographer.

My mind was too fertile to stick to facts, even had I known them. Knowing no more than the basics, beyond which she had never elucidated, I suddenly and inexplicably had the strong urge to set to work on a romantic novel that took the thread of grandma's life and then went where this led.

Well, incredible events emerged - and I was sometimes staggered by their emergence! It was soon as if I were simply a witness to all that was happening to the characters. Did I say 'happening to them'? By their wayward actions, they were making them happen!

I seemed to have no control over their behavior - some of which I found truly shocking!

So who was in control? Whose fingers were directing mine over my keyboard to produce these dramatic and sometimes tragic developments?

Obviously I can't say for sure, but when words appeared on my computer screen that I did not even understand until after consulting a dictionary I began to have my suspicions. Grandma was a strong-willed woman, you see, and I doubt that even death would stand in her way if she'd made up her mind that her wish was finally to be fulfilled through me!

What was I to make of the love story theme that had seemed to evolve all by itself? If my grandmother was really behind my writing, was she telling me that the events I had documented were based in reality? How thrilling, if so, since I had always had the impression that she had somehow missed out on true love.

You see, I had never even seen my maternal grandparents together in the same country! I had visited grandma often in London and grandpa less often in Vienna. But I had danced with him, on a boat on the Danube under the stars, and seen the expression in his eyes when he spoke of her. That he loved her still was all too evident... but how did she feel?

Maybe I now know. Maybe she had told me as words poured ostensibly from me onto paper. Or maybe mine is just another of those sad love story books that are out there to entertain!

A Teenage Love Story

2011-07-16T01:23:00.000-07:00

"Julliette! Get up school starts in twenty minutes!" "Mom, for the last time-I 'm taking my time!" "Boys! You get up too!" "Whatever" Yea. That's our regular day at the Paulson resident. Actually, there's two! Mom & Dad got a divorce two years ago. Lovely. West Haven, Connecticut was my hometown. Now I live in small town, West Bend, Iowa. Ahh the memories!

*Flashback*

Lori: hey! you're the new kid, right?
Me: Yea, why?
Kellie: We've heard SOOO much about you!
Lori: where are you from?
Me: Hartford.
Kellie: OMG! Isn't that like, all the way in Connecticut?

Me: Yep! 5 states away from home...Do you think I'll fit in?
Kellie: if you try! So anyways I-
Lori: Hey! Hey! You've got to meet Taylor& Nick!
Kellie: Julliette, meet Nick and Taylor!

Nick: Hi Julliette!

Taylor: Hi Julliette...is it alright if I just call you Jullie?

Me: *thinking* Taylor is really cute!

Me: sure!

RRRIIINNGG!

Kellie: oh my god! The bell already!? Oh well! Lets all meet at the park right after school! Everyone be there-its important! Is it a plan?

Lori: Yea it is!

Me: Sweet sure!

Taylor: yea!

Nick: Sure

*flashback ends.*

We're in the senior class and we're all going to the same collage! Weird, huh? We've been planning on doing that since the seventh grade. The collage is Farman University. I'm working on being a professional cupcake& cake designer. Kellies working on being a scientist, Nick & Taylor are working together for being collage professors, and Lori is working on being a nurse. Next year,Life will be good!

*AT SCHOOL*

Me: Hey Lori! What's up?
Lori: Nothing much, you?
Me: Nothing really. Umm, tonights my B-day & I'm having a slumber party...wanna come?
Me: Sure! Who's all comin'?
Lori: Well its an girls only party so here's who'll be there!
The only one you know that will be there is Kellie. The others are Laney, Jamie, Rose, Jessie, Hannah & Anna (Twins!)
Me: Oh I know Rose! But, She's the popular one, huh? But she's still my friend!
Lori: Great! I'll see you @ 8:00!

*@ Class*

Mrs. Landon: Hello class! I will be your homeroom teacher for this school year. Come get a book at my desk for this class. Its not usual but I'm also your math teacher.
Me: Hey Kellie?
Kellie: Yea?
Me: Well, tonight for the slumber party I was gonna bring some stuff...
Kellie: Well, what kind of stuff??
Me: Uh, its just a bottle.. and some boys!!
Kellie: NO!! What are you thinking!? Lori will be soo ma- well, actually, lets ask!
*After School*
Kellie: LORI! We have a question!
Lori: What is it?
Me: Well, we were wondering, if we could bring boys to the slumber party!
Lori: Are you CRAZ-
Kellie: She's bringing a bottle!
Lori: Still no guys. I would but my mom doesn't let boys sleep over. It's a rule.
Me: Okay! Text my later I gtg home!
Lori: Kay byeez!
Kelllie: Cya!

So at my house my twin little brothers are ruining the living room! that's what they do on a daily basis though. They're names are James & Michal. They're both ten. Ten year olds in fourth grade are pains in the butt.

I watch ten year olds enough at my cousins house, I don't need to deal with two more!

Me: Guys I'll be in my room getting ready! So whatever you do tonight, don't reck the house, and most importantly remember to take the dog out!

James & Michal: We'll try!

Me: *grons*

*Texting*

Me: Hey Lori. Codey Just broke up w/ me....

Lori: I'm so sorry...

Me: But, Hey Lori, GUESS WHO JUST ASKED ME OUT!?

Lori: OMG! Who!?

Me: Taylor!

Lori: WHAT!? You cant just date a best friend! that's like stealing a boyfriend from someone!

Me: oh. I guess we can tell him lol!

Lori: hahaha lol! Well are you comin or not? Its 7:45!

Me: Yea I'll b there soon! Ttyl!

Lori: Ttylz!

Me: Omg! What's moving under my blanket?

Chewy: *barks twice*

Me: Oh its just youChewy! You scared me little guy! Now run off to the boys! Go boy.

Me: Okay clothes, Makeup, Sleeping bag, Purse, Cell phone!! Ready to spend the night at Lori's!

Me: Bye boys! Bye Chewy!

Michal & James: Bye!

Chewy: *Barks!*

*Loris house, 7:55 PM*

*rings doorbell*

Lori: Hey Jullie! Come in!

Me: Wow. Nice house! Are you rich? haha
Lori: Oh not the slightest bit! This home was cheap!lol
Me: Wow.
Lori: Everyone, this is Jullie!
Laney: Hi!! Nice to meet you Jullie!
Jamie: Hey. How goes it?
Rose: Hey Jullie! Does everyone call you that now? Hannah: Omg hi! I love your curly blond hair!
Anna: Hi! Me too!
Me: Good, yes, thanks!
Lori: Oh nobodys met my mom. Her name is Penelope, But just call her penny!

Rose: Cool! Now lets go have fun & play truth or dare!
Everyone else: Sure! Yea! Lets go!

We went upstairs to a beautiful room of-my fave colors-blue & pink! And she says she's not rich?

Me: Nice room, Lor!
Lori: Thanks! My mom designed it!
Laney: Alright I 'll go first. Jamie, Truth Or Dare?
Jamie: Uhh, truth!
Laney: Is it true you love Nick Johnson?
Jamie: EWWW! Lmao no!
Lori: Okay, Jullie, Truth or dare?
Me: Dare!
Lori: I dare you to kiss Jamie on the lips!
All girls: * Laugh*
Jamie: Why is everything on ME!?
Lori: omg haha just do it!
*me & Lori kiss*
Anna: Omg! They actually did it! Sick!
Lori: Okay girls! Make over time!
Hannah: Oh yay!
Rose: Cool!
Lori: Jullie, what's wrong?
Me: Nothin' I'm just tierd is all. Maybe tomorrow!
Lori: Alright, Suit yourself!

*in bed*

Me: * Thinking* Uggh! I have this feeling.. Like I... liked the kiss.. No no no! Maybe I'm just tired! That's probably it! No it can't be! I can't get rid of this feeling! I have a boyfriend for gods sake! *gets out of bed*

Me: Hey guys I'm back!
Jessie: Oh you just missed makeovers!
Laney: Yea sorry!
Me: It's okay. Oh geez its 1:00 in the morning!
Hannah & Anna: Weren't we supposed to be in bed?
Lori: Yep.
Penny: *opens door* I'm serious I don't need to treat you like kids now but go to sleep and not a peep out of any one of you.
Everyone: Okay!

*All girls in bed*

Laney: Goodnight!
Jamie: Gnight!
Jessie: Goodnight!
Rose: Night!
Hannah & Anna: Night Night!
Me: Night!

*In the morning*

Lori: Everybody wake up!!
Jessie: Hi..
Hannah: *Yawn* Hi everyone.
Anna: Hey guys!
Rose: Hello everyone!
Jamie: Hello!
Me: Hey Guys!
Lori: Kay! Are we gonna just sit here like lazy peeps or are we gonna get dressed?
Jamie: I think we should be lazy!
Rose: ERRT! Wrong awnswer! *throws pillow at her* cmon everyone get up!

*Everyones up*

Anna: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Hannah: Of course I am I'm your twin!
Anna & Hannah: Cute outfit day!
Me: I have to go!
Everyone: Bye!
Me: Bye!

*Taylor's House*

Me: Hi babe!
Taylor: Hi hon!

*kiss*

Me: Lori doesn't want us to date!
Taylor: Don't listen to her! I love you!
Me: I love you too. But I'm worried about her.
Taylor: Why?
Me: Because she hasn't had a bf in forever.
Taylor: I know. Wanna spend the night?
Me: Yea lemme get my stuff.
Taylor: you should really tell your mom.
Me: No I was supposed to stay at Lori's tonight but I can skip.
Taylor: I see! I love you.
Me: I love you too!

*tonight*

Me: Hey we should watch some movies!
Taylor: Yea!
Me: I was kinda thinking we could watch the house bunny &-
Tammy: Julliette Faith! Get home NOW!
Me: Babe! Text me!
Taylor: Jullie! *gron*

*Upstairs Bathroom*

Me: AHHH! MOM!!!
Tammy: Baby what is it!?
Me: I'm pregnant!
Tammy: Your WHAT!?
Me: yea. You heard me.
Tammy: Your darn right I heard you! Missy your in deep trouble! I didn't have my first kid till I was 21! That's 3 more years!
Me: Mom I'm-
Tammy-Don't say your sorry! Cause' that don't cut it this time! You should've been more careful! There's no undoing it! No abortions! Now go tell Taylor! Now!

*Taylor's house again*

Me:*rings doorbell* hope he's home!
Taylor: Hey babe!
Me: Um I have something to tell you.
Taylor: What is it?
Me: Well, its just that, we have to get married.
Taylor: Why? Not yet we've been dating for 2 weeks!
Me: But, I'm sorry to say but-you got my pregnant.
Taylor: WHAT!? Well, then its perfect! I love you!
Me: I love you too!

*6 months later, @ the church*

Priest: Do you, Taylor, take Julliette to be your wife?
Taylor: I do!
Priest: do you, Julliette, take Taylor to be you husband?
Me: I do!
Priest: You may kiss the bride!

*kiss*

Tammy: Congrats darlin'!
Me: Thanks mom!

*everyone else says congrats*
*@ The reception!*

Me: Lets cut the cake babe! I'm starving!
Taylor: Kay!
Me: I'm so glad this cakes choc-
Taylor: Wh-what is it babe?
Me: THE BABYS COMING!!!!!!!
Tammy: Call an ambulance!
*lots of people tell her to calm down till the ambulance gets here*
*@ the hospital*
Tammy & Taylor: Push honey! Push Babe! Come on you can do it!
Me: *In very much pain* ERRRHH!!!!!
Doctor: it's a Girl!
Me: I'll name her Annabelle Rose.
Codey: Hi Jullie.
Me: Didn't expect to see you here, huh?
Codey: Wait-is that thing mine!?
Taylor: You better leave her alone or else I-
Me: No, codey. Annabelle is mine & Taylor's. cmon lets go home.

*@ home*

Me: oh geez! Its scary here without Taylor...

*BANG!
Me: What was that!?
Codey: cya jullie!
Me: Huh? Why are YOU here??
*codey lights match and puts on floor. Runs.*
Me: ANNABELLE!!!
Annabelle: WAAAHH! WAHHHH!
Me: ANNABELLE!! *goes into flames to get to babys room

Me: ANNA!!
Annabelle: WAAHHH WAAHH!!!
Me:*coff coff I....can't find a way out! Wait a second! Anna! The escape door is in your room sweetie! *cofff coff. Lets go!
Annabelle: Lets GO!
Me: HER FIRST WORDS!

*both go out escape door, quick!

~The next day. 8:47 AM~

Me: *Wakes up.* Your so beautiful Annabelle Rose.
Taylor: Hi babe-why exactly are you outside?
Me: Shhh she's sleeping! And lets look inside the building, shall we?
*all go inside building*
Taylor: Oh my god! No way this is a dream!
Me: Nope. And our little girl almost died! She's only 2 days old!
Taylor: What happened?
Me: Codey found our house and broke in. He lit a match, threw it on the floor, and ran. Trying to separate me, you, & Annabelle will never work, will it Ann?

Annabelle: Lets GO!
Taylor: Jullie-
Me: I know- her first words.

*Five Months Later*

Me: Come here Anna! We're going to Nanna Kellie's house!
Annabelle: Lets Go Mommy!
Me: Aww! So cute!

We considered Kellie & Lori were her nanas since they were there for her birth. Annabelle loves to see them! Now I know what child birth feels like. Its very, VERY painful!

*@ Kellie's house*

Me: *Rings doorbell
Kellie: Hi Jullie! How's Anna doin!
Me: She's perfect! I love her beautiful blue eyes & brunette hair. My hair, and sadly, Codey's eyes & hair color.
Kellie: Oh. Well how is Taylor.
Me: Why? Wouldn't you know?
Annabelle: Mommy!
Kellie: Aww! Cute!
Me: That's what I said!
Kellie: Anyways Lori broke our group up & she's not going to collage.
Me: OMG WHA-
Anna: *Chews on nail
Me: No! Annabelle Rose that's naughty! *takes nail* ANYWAYS what? You have to be kidding right!?
Kellie: Nope.
Me: *Pauses* BRB! Hold on to Anna and watch her for ten minutes!

Me: *Rings Lori's doorbell
Lori: Oh, hello to you!
Me: Huh? What's up?
Lori: You're up! I TOLD you not to marry or even date Taylor!
Me: Well obiously its not your choice! I had to marry him because he-
Lori:Wanted you to-
Me: NO! I had my baby. You know it.
Lori: Oh. You could've told me...
Me: Sorry Lori. But we can't talk anymore.
Lori: But Jullie I-
Me: No. No more. Maybe I'll text. Goodbye Lori... *hugs lori
Lori: *Crying* Bye Julliette.
*Julliette runs to Kellies house, crying.

Lori: What did she say?
Me:Nothing. Come here Annabelle we're going to see daddy. Bye Lori!
Lori: Bye!

*At home, One year later*

Me: Hi Taylor!
Taylor: Hi babe!
Me: Guess what day it is??
Taylor: Your 19th Birthday!
Me: Yea!
*Kiss*
Taylor:And now that Annas one, she's got all her beautiful brown hair!
Me: Yea I know!
Taylor: What else will she need to know?
Me: When she's older, lets tell her our Teenage Love Story.

We looked out back, sang happy birthday, and watched the sun set beneath the water."Julliette! Get up school starts in twenty minutes!" "Mom, for the last time-I 'm taking my time!" "Boys! You get up too!" "Whatever" Yea. That's our regular day at the Paulson resident. Actually, there's two! Mom & Dad got a divorce two years ago. Lovely. West Haven, Connecticut was my hometown. Now I live in small town, West Bend, Iowa. Ahh the memories!

*Flashback*

Lori: hey! you're the new kid, right?
Me: Yea, why?
Kellie: We've heard SOOO much about you!
Lori: where are you from?
Me: Hartford.
Kellie: OMG! Isn't that like, all the way in Connecticut?
Me: Yep! 5 states away from home...Do you think I'll fit in?
Kellie: if you try! So anyways I-
Lori: Hey! Hey! You've got to meet Taylor& Nick!
Kellie: Julliette, meet Nick and Taylor!

Nick: Hi Julliette!

Taylor: Hi Julliette...is it alright if I just call you Jullie?

Me: *thinking* Taylor is really cute!

Me: sure!

RRRIIINNGG!

Kellie: oh my god! The bell already!? Oh well! Lets all meet at the park right after school! Everyone be there-its important! Is it a plan?

Lori: Yea it is!

Me: Sweet sure!

Taylor: yea!

Nick: Sure

*flashback ends.*

We're in the senior class and we're all going to the same collage! Weird, huh? We've been planning on doing that since the seventh grade. The collage is Farman University. I'm working on being a professional cupcake& cake designer. Kellies working on being a scientist, Nick & Taylor are working together for being collage professors, and Lori is working on being a nurse. Next year,Life will be good!

*AT SCHOOL*

Me: Hey Lori! What's up?
Lori: Nothing much, you?
Me: Nothing really. Umm, tonights my B-day & I'm having a slumber party...wanna come?
Me: Sure! Who's all comin'?
Lori: Well its an girls only party so here's who'll be there!
The only one you know that will be there is Kellie. The others are Laney, Jamie, Rose, Jessie, Hannah & Anna (Twins!)
Me: Oh I know Rose! But, She's the popular one, huh? But she's still my friend!
Lori: Great! I'll see you @ 8:00!

*@ Class*

Mrs. Landon: Hello class! I will be your homeroom teacher for this school year. Come get a book at my desk for this class. Its not usual but I'm also your math teacher.
Me: Hey Kellie?
Kellie: Yea?
Me: Well, tonight for the slumber party I was gonna bring some stuff...
Kellie: Well, what kind of stuff??
Me: Uh, its just a bottle.. and some boys!!
Kellie: NO!! What are you thinking!? Lori will be soo ma- well, actually, lets ask!
*After School*
Kellie: LORI! We have a question!
Lori: What is it?
Me: Well, we were wondering, if we could bring boys to the slumber party!
Lori: Are you CRAZ-
Kellie: She's bringing a bottle!
Lori: Still no guys. I would but my mom doesn't let boys sleep over. It's a rule.
Me: Okay! Text my later I gtg home!
Lori: Kay byeez!
Kelllie: Cya!

So at my house my twin little brothers are ruining the living room! that's what they do on a daily basis though. They're names are James & Michal. They're both ten. Ten year olds in fourth grade are pains in the butt.

I watch ten year olds enough at my cousins house, I don't need to deal with two more!

Me: Guys I'll be in my room getting ready! So whatever you do tonight, don't reck the house, and most importantly remember to take the dog out!

James & Michal: We'll try!

Me: *grons*

*Texting*

Me: Hey Lori. Codey Just broke up w/ me....

Lori: I'm so sorry...

Me: But, Hey Lori, GUESS WHO JUST ASKED ME OUT!?

Lori: OMG! Who!?

Me: Taylor!

Lori: WHAT!? You cant just date a best friend! that's like stealing a boyfriend from someone!

Me: oh. I guess we can tell him lol!

Lori: hahaha lol! Well are you comin or not? Its 7:45!

Me: Yea I'll b there soon! Ttyl!

Lori: Ttylz!

Me: Omg! What's moving under my blanket?

Chewy: *barks twice*

Me: Oh its just youChewy! You scared me little guy! Now run off to the boys! Go boy.

Me: Okay clothes, Makeup, Sleeping bag, Purse, Cell phone!! Ready to spend the night at Lori's!

Me: Bye boys! Bye Chewy!

Michal & James: Bye!

Chewy: *Barks!*

*Loris house, 7:55 PM*

*rings doorbell*

Lori: Hey Jullie! Come in!

Me: Wow. Nice house! Are you rich? haha
Lori: Oh not the slightest bit! This home was cheap!lol
Me: Wow.
Lori: Everyone, this is Jullie!
Laney: Hi!! Nice to meet you Jullie!
Jamie: Hey. How goes it?
Rose: Hey Jullie! Does everyone call you that now? Hannah: Omg hi! I love your curly blond hair!
Anna: Hi! Me too!
Me: Good, yes, thanks!
Lori: Oh nobodys met my mom. Her name is Penelope, But just call her penny!

Rose: Cool! Now lets go have fun & play truth or dare!
Everyone else: Sure! Yea! Lets go!

We went upstairs to a beautiful room of-my fave colors-blue & pink! And she says she's not rich?

Me: Nice room, Lor!
Lori: Thanks! My mom designed it!
Laney: Alright I 'll go first. Jamie, Truth Or Dare?
Jamie: Uhh, truth!
Laney: Is it true you love Nick Johnson?
Jamie: EWWW! Lmao no!
Lori: Okay, Jullie, Truth or dare?
Me: Dare!
Lori: I dare you to kiss Jamie on the lips!
All girls: * Laugh*
Jamie: Why is everything on ME!?
Lori: omg haha just do it!
*me & Lori kiss*
Anna: Omg! They actually did it! Sick!
Lori: Okay girls! Make over time!
Hannah: Oh yay!
Rose: Cool!
Lori: Jullie, what's wrong?
Me: Nothin' I'm just tierd is all. Maybe tomorrow!
Lori: Alright, Suit yourself!

*in bed*

Me: * Thinking* Uggh! I have this feeling.. Like I... liked the kiss.. No no no! Maybe I'm just tired! That's probably it! No it can't be! I can't get rid of this feeling! I have a boyfriend for gods sake! *gets out of bed*

Me: Hey guys I'm back!
Jessie: Oh you just missed makeovers!
Laney: Yea sorry!
Me: It's okay. Oh geez its 1:00 in the morning!
Hannah & Anna: Weren't we supposed to be in bed?
Lori: Yep.
Penny: *opens door* I'm serious I don't need to treat you like kids now but go to sleep and not a peep out of any one of you.
Everyone: Okay!

*All girls in bed*

Laney: Goodnight!
Jamie: Gnight!
Jessie: Goodnight!
Rose: Night!
Hannah & Anna: Night Night!
Me: Night!

*In the morning*

Lori: Everybody wake up!!
Jessie: Hi..
Hannah: *Yawn* Hi everyone.
Anna: Hey guys!
Rose: Hello everyone!
Jamie: Hello!
Me: Hey Guys!
Lori: Kay! Are we gonna just sit here like lazy peeps or are we gonna get dressed?
Jamie: I think we should be lazy!
Rose: ERRT! Wrong awnswer! *throws pillow at her* cmon everyone get up!

*Everyones up*

Anna: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Hannah: Of course I am I'm your twin!
Anna & Hannah: Cute outfit day!
Me: I have to go!
Everyone: Bye!
Me: Bye!

*Taylor's House*

Me: Hi babe!
Taylor: Hi hon!

*kiss*

Me: Lori doesn't want us to date!
Taylor: Don't listen to her! I love you!
Me: I love you too. But I'm worried about her.
Taylor: Why?
Me: Because she hasn't had a bf in forever.
Taylor: I know. Wanna spend the night?
Me: Yea lemme get my stuff.
Taylor: you should really tell your mom.
Me: No I was supposed to stay at Lori's tonight but I can skip.
Taylor: I see! I love you.
Me: I love you too!

*tonight*

Me: Hey we should watch some movies!
Taylor: Yea!
Me: I was kinda thinking we could watch the house bunny &-
Tammy: Julliette Faith! Get home NOW!
Me: Babe! Text me!
Taylor: Jullie! *gron*

*Upstairs Bathroom*

Me: AHHH! MOM!!!
Tammy: Baby what is it!?
Me: I'm pregnant!
Tammy: Your WHAT!?
Me: yea. You heard me.
Tammy: Your darn right I heard you! Missy your in deep trouble! I didn't have my first kid till I was 21! That's 3 more years!
Me: Mom I'm-
Tammy-Don't say your sorry! Cause' that don't cut it this time! You should've been more careful! There's no undoing it! No abortions! Now go tell Taylor! Now!

*Taylor's house again*

Me:*rings doorbell* hope he's home!
Taylor: Hey babe!
Me: Um I have something to tell you.
Taylor: What is it?
Me: Well, its just that, we have to get married.
Taylor: Why? Not yet we've been dating for 2 weeks!
Me: But, I'm sorry to say but-you got my pregnant.
Taylor: WHAT!? Well, then its perfect! I love you!
Me: I love you too!

*6 months later, @ the church*

Priest: Do you, Taylor, take Julliette to be your wife?
Taylor: I do!
Priest: do you, Julliette, take Taylor to be you husband?
Me: I do!
Priest: You may kiss the bride!

*kiss*

Tammy: Congrats darlin'!
Me: Thanks mom!

*everyone else says congrats*
*@ The reception!*

Me: Lets cut the cake babe! I'm starving!
Taylor: Kay!
Me: I'm so glad this cakes choc-
Taylor: Wh-what is it babe?
Me: THE BABYS COMING!!!!!!!
Tammy: Call an ambulance!
*lots of people tell her to calm down till the ambulance gets here*
*@ the hospital*
Tammy & Taylor: Push honey! Push Babe! Come on you can do it!
Me: *In very much pain* ERRRHH!!!!!
Doctor: it's a Girl!
Me: I'll name her Annabelle Rose.
Codey: Hi Jullie.
Me: Didn't expect to see you here, huh?
Codey: Wait-is that thing mine!?
Taylor: You better leave her alone or else I-
Me: No, codey. Annabelle is mine & Taylor's. cmon lets go home.

*@ home*

Me: oh geez! Its scary here without Taylor...

*BANG!
Me: What was that!?
Codey: cya jullie!
Me: Huh? Why are YOU here??
*codey lights match and puts on floor. Runs.*
Me: ANNABELLE!!!
Annabelle: WAAAHH! WAHHHH!
Me: ANNABELLE!! *goes into flames to get to babys room

Me: ANNA!!
Annabelle: WAAHHH WAAHH!!!
Me:*coff coff I....can't find a way out! Wait a second! Anna! The escape door is in your room sweetie! *cofff coff. Lets go!
Annabelle: Lets GO!
Me: HER FIRST WORDS!

*both go out escape door, quick!

~The next day. 8:47 AM~

Me: *Wakes up.* Your so beautiful Annabelle Rose.
Taylor: Hi babe-why exactly are you outside?
Me: Shhh she's sleeping! And lets look inside the building, shall we?
*all go inside building*
Taylor: Oh my god! No way this is a dream!
Me: Nope. And our little girl almost died! She's only 2 days old!
Taylor: What happened?
Me: Codey found our house and broke in. He lit a match, threw it on the floor, and ran. Trying to separate me, you, & Annabelle will never work, will it Ann?

Annabelle: Lets GO!
Taylor: Jullie-
Me: I know- her first words.

*Five Months Later*

Me: Come here Anna! We're going to Nanna Kellie's house!
Annabelle: Lets Go Mommy!
Me: Aww! So cute!

We considered Kellie & Lori were her nanas since they were there for her birth. Annabelle loves to see them! Now I know what child birth feels like. Its very, VERY painful!

*@ Kellie's house*

Me: *Rings doorbell
Kellie: Hi Jullie! How's Anna doin!
Me: She's perfect! I love her beautiful blue eyes & brunette hair. My hair, and sadly, Codey's eyes & hair color.
Kellie: Oh. Well how is Taylor.
Me: Why? Wouldn't you know?
Annabelle: Mommy!
Kellie: Aww! Cute!
Me: That's what I said!
Kellie: Anyways Lori broke our group up & she's not going to collage.
Me: OMG WHA-
Anna: *Chews on nail
Me: No! Annabelle Rose that's naughty! *takes nail* ANYWAYS what? You have to be kidding right!?
Kellie: Nope.
Me: *Pauses* BRB! Hold on to Anna and watch her for ten minutes!

Me: *Rings Lori's doorbell
Lori: Oh, hello to you!
Me: Huh? What's up?
Lori: You're up! I TOLD you not to marry or even date Taylor!
Me: Well obiously its not your choice! I had to marry him because he-
Lori:Wanted you to-
Me: NO! I had my baby. You know it.
Lori: Oh. You could've told me...
Me: Sorry Lori. But we can't talk anymore.
Lori: But Jullie I-
Me: No. No more. Maybe I'll text. Goodbye Lori... *hugs lori
Lori: *Crying* Bye Julliette.
*Julliette runs to Kellies house, crying.

Lori: What did she say?
Me:Nothing. Come here Annabelle we're going to see daddy. Bye Lori!
Lori: Bye!

*At home, One year later*

Me: Hi Taylor!
Taylor: Hi babe!
Me: Guess what day it is??
Taylor: Your 19th Birthday!
Me: Yea!
*Kiss*
Taylor:And now that Annas one, she's got all her beautiful brown hair!
Me: Yea I know!
Taylor: What else will she need to know?
Me: When she's older, lets tell her our Teenage Love Story.

We looked out back, sang happy birthday, and watched the sun set beneath the water.

The Love Story of Barbie and Ken

2011-07-12T01:21:00.000-07:00

When Barbie strolled onto the world of dolls in 1959, everybody knew it will change the doll scene forever. Since Mattel introduced her, more and more girls all over the world fell in love with the most popular and lovable creation. Aside from the dolls itself, Barbie and everything about her became quite a hit to so many endeared markets--especially her long-standing relationship with Ken Carson.

UNFOLDING BARBIE AND KEN'S JOURNEY

After the introduction of Barbie in 1959, the creators of the world's most-loved doll decided to give her a companion in the form of Ken in 1961. Barbie and Ken, who was created by Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel, Inc. were named after the creator's daughter and son. Since their introduction as a couple, Barbie and Ken have been known to have on-and-off relationship.

The loves story of the two plastic dolls started when Barbie met Ken on the set of a TV commercial in 1961. since their first meeting, the couple has and been inseparable ever since. Through the years, the couple's fans around the world followed their "perfect" love story. Everybody hoped that the two would end up together but the possibility was thrown into flames when the two decided to part ways in 2004.

After 43 years of being together, the world's most famous couple in the doll scene has decided to end up their affair but claims it's only temporary. Like the break ups of famous couples in Hollywood, the break up of Barbie and Ken was big news.

According to Mattel vice president of Marketing Russell Arons, the plastic couple's "business manager," the break up stemmed from the fact that the couple wanted to spend quality time apart. And though their romance came to an end, the pretty ex-couple continued to friends. According to the news, the relationship ended because of the overwhelming pressure of always being scrutinized by public eye.

Others say that Ken's vague sexuality and Barbie's disproportionate figure may have finally taken their toll between the two. While other suspect that Barbie's career and popularity over Ken's must have been the real issue between their differences. But, Barbie fans insist that Ken's refusal of tying the knot with the world's most popular fashion doll might have pulled the trigger and ended up the couple's romance.

Despite the rumors spreading about the couple's break up, Mattel assures that the status of the dolls' relationship is temporary, thus, their relationship can be revived again.

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Titanic - A Love Story Movie Review

2011-07-05T01:15:00.000-07:00

'Titanic' is a love story that captures the romance of two young lovers as the tragedy of the doomed vessel, RMS Titanic, unfolds around them. It was released in 1997 and was a great commercial and critical success, winning 11 Academy Awards (the first to do so since 'Ben Hur') and 3 Grammys.

It was was written, directed, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, who also won the Academy Award for best director. 'Titanic' became the highest grossest movie of all time, earning $1.8 billion at the box office, until it was surpassed in 2010 by 'Avatar', another movie by James Cameron.

The story concerns two young people from different social classes - Leonardo DiCaprio appears as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet has the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater - who fall in love while aboard the doomed maiden voyage of the Titanic in 1912. Although the love story is fictitious, many of the characters - crew and passengers - were based on those who were actually aboard the real vessel.

For instance, the brash Margaret "Molly" Brown (played by Kathy Bates) was famous for her heroic efforts (not shown in the movie) of trying to save drowning passengers. She later became known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown".

There were many scenes in the movie, although only briefly touched on, which added greatly to the emotional impact of the inevitable sinking on passengers and crew. Two historical characters were Isador and Ida Strauss. Isador was a former owner of R.H. Macy and Company and was also a former NY Congressman. In the movie, his wife Ida has a chance of leaving the ship in a lifeboat but declines and returns to her husband, saying she will honor her wedding vow and remain with Isidor. She is last seen embracing him as they lie on a bed in their stateroom, with the water rushing in.

Layers of emotion are added with other scenes that depict obvious heroism by crew members. Joseph Bell, the Chief Engineer, and his men work desperately until the last moments to maintain the power for lights and so distress signals can be sent. All are lost.

Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster, and his orchestra, continue to play uplifting music to the very end, even as the ship sinks.

The two lovers, Rose and Jack, initially come together when he rescues her from a suicide attempt brought about by her despondency at a loveless engagement, having been pressured to marry a wealthy suitor, Cal, because of her family's financial needs.

Jack is scorned as inferior by Rose's mother and Cal but he does manage to attend a stuffy first-class dinner, where he renews his acquaintance with Rose and their bond deepens.

The next day, Rose defies her mother and Cal and goes to the bow of the ship where she meets Jack, realizes her feelings for him and the two passionately embrace. They then go to the privacy of Rose's stateroom and she asks him to sketch her wearing only the Heart of the Ocean, a blue diamond necklace which was an expensive engagement gift from Cal. She later leaves the sketch in Cal's safe.

While attempting to escape from Cal's bodyguard, Rose and Jack enter the cargo hold where they enter one of the cars stored there and make love on the back seat.

They witness the collision with the iceberg and overhear the lookouts discussing how serious it is. Rose and Jack decide to warn her mother and Cal but, in the meantime, Cal has discovered the nude sketch of Rose and furiously plants the necklace on Jack; then accuses him of stealing it. Jack is arrested and taken below deck, where he is handcuffed to a pipe.

The emotional elements of the 'Titanic' are very powerful, with the later scenes showing the aftermath of the collision, the desperate attempts of those aboard to find shelter on a lifeboat, or the brave acceptance of their fate. As there were not enough lifeboats, more than 1500 passengers and crew perished in this catastrophe. Throughout, the musical score strongly reflects their feelings and the dangers they face. The closing song, 'My Heart Will Go On' (sung by Celine Dion) won an Academy Award and two Grammies. Following the success of 'Avatar', a 3-D version of 'Titanic' will also be released.

Read more of the story of Rose and Jack and what happens to them here: Titanic A Love Story and also on this page: Titanic Romantic Movie.