71.   Prospects frequently look rosiest to the key players when the romance of the deal is fresh.

72.   Romances are an escape for readers, but also, sometimes, for writers.

73.   Romances are popular because they always have a happy ending and a monogamous relationship, she said.

74.   She needs to grow up, get a job and realize that a romance is not a rescue.

75.   So, he insists, is romance.

76.   Spring training is a promise to the fans that the romance is still alive.

77.   Still, he said, a romance was not the reason he started corresponding with Bejtullahu and continued to write to her.

78.   Such voyeurism kills all mystery, and without mystery there can be no romance.

79.   Suffice it to say the romance is fated.

80.   That romance may be over.