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From Raindrops to Forever: A Subway Encounter Blooms into Unexpected Love
At 7 o’clock in the morning, my progenitors and I engaged in a substantial altercation before hastily vacating the domicile. I, being of twenty-eight years, found myself subjected to a succession of orchestrated blind rendezvous by my progenitors. Though compliant, each rendezvous concluded fruitlessly. It is not a matter of fastidiousness, but rather, a lack of affinity toward any suitor presented. On this particular day, when urged to partake in yet another blind encounter, I adamantly declined, remarking, “A photoshoot is superfluous; an engagement will suffice,” before departing in a state of agitation. Fate seemed indifferent to our plight, as within mere moments of our departure, torrents of rain descended…
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On Relationships, Choice, and the Myth of the “One and Only”
There are thousands of men who could be a good husband to a woman. When this sentence came out word for word from the mouth of a lawyer girlfriend, I, sitting opposite, almost slid from the chair to the floor. Don’t make such a fuss. This can also be said to men in turn, there are thousands of women who can be good wives for you. You know I don’t mean that everyone can do anything. My upbringing and career prevent me from saying such silly things. I am so unconventional because I am aiming at the kind of “uniqueness” that writers often advocate in their works. Girlfriend talks freely.…
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The Universal Lessons of Love and Life from Bestseller Novel “The Ferryman”
If life is a lonely river, who will be the ferryman of your soul? For this question, perhaps everyone has been looking for the answer throughout their lives. The novel “The Ferryman” tells us the answer to the mystery with a touching story. The protagonist of the story, Dylan, lived a lonely and depressed life before she was 15 years old. In a train accident, she became the only victim. After her death, she accidentally meets the ferryman Tristan. The two crossed the wasteland together, gradually fell in love, and finally ferry each other back to the world. As soon as this book came out, it won the first place…
