Every month, Mamalode announces a new theme and puts out a call for essays.
When they announced that February’s theme would be XO, my immediate thought was “This is a toughie–’cause what don’t I love? I could write 3,000 words about the boots in my closet, the woman at the gym who complimented my calves, or the jigsaw puzzle I’m working on.”
Pretty much, I have hugs and kisses for a million little things.
So I decided to go big.
Even though February is “the month of love,” and even though I deeply dislike Valentine’s Day (hey, there’s something I don’t love!), I saw no need to wrestle my brain into a quirky, off-the-wall story about love.
I have a big love, and he lives with me, warms my feet in the bed at night, and counsels me through the trickiest sections of my jigsaw.
There was no question: I would submit an essay about Byron.
Of course, because I also love to be ornery, I started out with this sentence:
Despite substantial evidence that the romantic ideal of meeting The One and living happily ever after is a crock, we are trained from birth to believe in it.
Please, click on the following title and read the whole thing over at Mamalode: “The One That Didn’t Fail”
I’d love it if you did.
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