Let’s make this multiple choice. You can add your answers to this. Feel free to comment. It won’t be graded. Now some of these answers may sound like things your mother used to tell you, or still tells you, and maybe she was right, but let’s see.

Q: Why do lovers have to go through hell to get to heaven?

a) They’ll appreciate it so much more when they have to earn it (thanks a lot, Mom).

b) Fiction writers love conflict, and they’ve been told a thousand times, “More conflict!” (in my case, two thousand times).

c) Anything worth having is worth working for (Mom, enough already!).

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This past Sunday afternoon my friend Richie from up the street came by to watch our favorite pro team, the Colts, smash the Arizona Cardinals in Week III of the new NFL season (MMIX, I guess … the NFL loves roman numerals). So the Colts are indeed crushing the Cardinals, in Arizona, as predicted. [...]
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