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Reader's Digest has an article by Nadine Crenshaw, a woman who writes romance novels. She says they are exotic fantasies, larger than life. She writes this article, "How to Find True Love," to say as a mother to her children that true love is more true to life than her stories. "Love for me is specific: I speak here of your father, Robert, my husband of 23 years. To you our marriage is as plain as vanilla ice cream, but it is the core of my life. Ours is the kind of love to which romance novels are just a prelude ... "Your dad doesn't arrange intimate dinners or second honeymoons. He doesn't bring me flowers. What he does is keep my car repaired and full of gas so I'll never be stranded. He vacuums the carpet when your grandmother is coming -- not because he cares, but because he knows I care. Though your dad is not a pet person, when our old cat died, Robert buried him for me. He held me while I wept. After I'd mourned for several months, he encouraged me to adopt a kitten. So remember, true romance -- the enduring kind -- often comes so cleverly disguised it's easy to overlook." (Reader's Digest, May 91, p. 33, permission granted from Nadine Crenshaw to republish this story.) -- Mosley
