Chapter 28
Unavailability
There are many reasons one of your two lovers might be unavailable. Here is a starting list for you:
He/She is Dying
The love story set in the midst of someone dying is a sub-genre that keeps cropping up and then disappearing again. Most recently, Young Adult novels that teen girls weep over have become a popular movie genre. If I Stay. The Fault in our Stars. Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl. And many, many others. You know the ones I’m talking about.
Since movies began, and in live theater before that, someone has always been dying in his/her lover’s arms as the audience weeps. From long before Romeo drank the ill-fated poison beside his not-really-dead Juliet, this has been going on and is perennially popular.
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