I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.

Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?" "We weren't," he said. "We were in love.

Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.