Hey again! *trying to keep up with the lecture* Currently fascinated for the love of Narry and Louise for each other♥ Narry actually wants to "settle matters" with Jacqueline (finally!). Even though she made a total mess with Narry's apartment... I feel confused about what is he talking about later on, I feel he is telling us something about relationships and how should we behave and that everything is not really the same for everyone or following the general rules of love. He talks about many things without even a pause between that makes me dizzy and hard to follow the topics... Don't mind that I might be mistaken about what I think... I am also kind of ill...not making an excuse...

I continue reading to, what it seems, that Jacqueline does have a husband but still has affairs with Narry... I mean... for sure 'happiness is always a compromise' (74), if what you mean by happiness is not having enough with being married to the supposed men you are in love and need to have affairs with another one... of course is a compromise that you decided to marry that man.

By the way, that thing about magazines really shocked me in the sense of how much truth is in there, and I am sure society did not even notice that, like me!
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I. AM. TIRED. OF. HIM. TALKING. ABOUT. HIS. OTHER. GIRLFRIENDS. STOP. PLEASE. I have to say that 'I was wearing only my Mickey Mouse one-piece' (75) is the best sentence, I mean, I feel you man. And again he addressed her just to say that Judith also get rid of all his things, just as Jacqueline, but Judith burned them.

It is cute just how the narrator finds his love for Louise as the one with who does not need any lover or to think of his previous girlfriends and happened with Jacqueline, it is cute how he found love in her and with her. Also he found his friend committing adultery just before marrying very bad. "I will be true to you", no matter if they are married or not, nothing will tear them apart♥

He is talking about a kind of 'six-months-rule' within a relationship, like if it is a crutial line, stablishing a limit through which just some of those couples can transcend and go beyond, actually achieving 'relationship goals'. Fascinating as for me (or what I have been said) this line is established when the couple reaches 4 years of relationship, which, of course, is just a myth as the one the narrator establishes.

As it is already late, I will end it here with a quote I really liked: "What you risk is what you value. In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one" (81).