yesterday she expressed an interest in reading "love stories."...
May I suggest three of Rita Mae Brown's marvelous short novels:
--"Southern Discomfort" (very sad ending)
--"Grand Slam" (moderately sad-life goes on-ending)
--"Venus Envy" (very happy-and quite hilarious-ending)
Shane Mage
"Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
living their deaths, dying their lives"
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62