Overheard Starbuck

"More than your smiling face and genial manner; more than your opinions and sometimes witty observations; more then even your adequate lawn care skills--she needs you so she can reject you. If she had no one close to her to shut down and ignore at crucial moments, or whenever the mood strikes her, she'ld be lost."
--"I'm her antipode?"
"'You don't know what you're talking about.' ... She may not know what's going on, but once you put your two cents in, she's at least sure it can't be that."
---"Love is strange."