This short story consisted of a bunch of scenarios revolving around love and suicide. I was shocked at most of the stories because many of the characters killed themself and others over jealousy. My favorite story was the first one, A, because it ended happily for all the characters in it. Unfortunately that isn't how it would end in real life and the author even says so herself, "You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, either deliberately fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality." I guess the moral of this story is don't fall in love because love will be the death of you.
My Alternate Ending
John and Mary meet in college and begin dating. Everything is great. They have a blast in college and decide to get married because they love each other. They both think that they found their soulmate, but of course they were wrong. Mary and John have a daughter named Julie and everything is perfect. They go on many vacations and have a carefree lifestyle. Julie eventually grows up and gets married. John really did love Mary when they first got married. She was young and beautiful. Years passed and she lost her youth and beauty so John no longer wanted her. He didn't want a divorce because it would hurt both Mary and Julie. Instead he has an affair with a woman named Rose who is, of course, young and beautiful. When Rose grows old, John finds a new love and this keeps repeating until he dies. Mary never finds out. Mary becomes disappointed in John. She thought her soulmate could never lose his job. She thought he'd come home on time for dinner. She thought he would remember her birthday, anniversary, and remember to put the toilet seat down. She thought he was perfect, but how could he be? She had this ideal man in mind when she married him but that man doesn't exist. She realizes she no longer loves him and doesn't know what to do. So she decides to do nothing and say nothing and has an unhappy marriage to John until she dies. Being unhappily married is perhaps a worse fate than death.
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