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Love makes the

world go stupid.

—
David Sandler

 

 

Longed for

opportunity…

then you knocked.

—
Katie Williams

 

 

Kim sang, “Let’s stay together.”

Accomplished.

—
Patrick J. Sauer

 

 

Plenty of liquor—

we’ll make it.

—
Allison Shields

 

 

They never seemed

crazy at first.

—
Eric Heiman

 

 

True love is a nephew’s hug.

—
Alison Schulak-Moore

 

 

First kissed a girl at sixteen.

—
Christina Santos

 

 

Grew up on border, loved across.

—
Erin Oldroyd

 

 

It’s lonely here on

the shelf.

—
Genevieve Stanhope

 

 

I put

the seat

down

now.

—
Marcus Eder

 

 

He changed me. I outgrew him.

—
Marcie Vargas

 

 

Love means lying about my

weight.

—
Ann Ingalls

 

 

Diagnosis: Bipolar.

He still loves me.

—
Valerie Elliott

 

 

Smile all day.

Cry all night.

—
Tran Le Mai

 

 

She defines happiness.

I defy gravity.

—
Dan Rubin

 

 

Proposal. Dowry.

Betrothal. Marriage.

Children. Love.

—
Mitali Perkins

 

 

He cheated and then

he died.

—
Judy McGuire

 

 

So this is me, getting out.

—
Stephanie Brady

 

 

Tissues everywhere,

for semen, for tears.

—
Matt Sullivan

 

 

I’m too old

for this shit.

—
Abby Ellin

 

 

Three engagement rings.

No wedding band.

—
Sadie Pfannkuche

 

 

He married someone else

named Christine.

—
Christine Stanley

 

 

A virgin! He’s infuriated;

she’s devastated.

—
Kristine Eckis

 

 

Brad Pitt missed out big time.

—
Erin Walsh

 

 

Palindromantically:

Eros saw I was sore.

—
Aaron Fagan

 

 

Got it right second time around.

—
Gina di Bari Carlos

 

 

Like
Poltergeist
, without all

the ghosts.

—
John Palmer Jr.

 

 

I’m fifty-three, he’s thirty-six,

why not?

—
Wendy Green

 

 

His e-mail

password was

the same.

—
Alexander Chee

 

 

Now I hate hearing

that song.

—
T’Anna Holst

 

 

Happily single. No one believes me.

—
Eliot Sheridan

 

 

Somehow I even love

his snoring.

—
Lauren Given

 

 

Overwrought, fraught,

we fought over naught.

—
Gail Siegel

 

 

Broken heart so

I tried suicide.

—
Phillip Seep

 

 

Find,

feel,

fuck,

forgive,

forget.

Fantastic.

—
Janice Dickinson

 

 

He killed the baby I wanted.

—
LaDonna Jean Jacobsen

 

 

No closet could

hide this love.

—
Andrea Dela Cruz

 

 

Divorce papers served on

first anniversary.

—
Vicki Botnick

 

 

Knew cat would accept you,

eventually.

—
Anne Ursu

 

 

I waited. He never

called back.

—
Amy Black

 

 

Love has healed my

many wounds.

—
Inara de Luna

 

 

Years of pillow talk.

BlackBerry breakup.

—
Kathryn Aronsohn

 

 

Too optimistic for my own good.

—
Joyce Riley

 

 

Loved him until nothing was left.

—
Jackie Hodges

 

 

She came back,

I wasn’t home.

—
Erik Raske

 

 

Bastard turned out to be

straight.

—
Lanford Wilson

 

 

Jumped in young,

still going strong.

—
Laura Scott

 

 

Actually, I took my own

virginity.

—
Alison Carey

 

 

Before you, love was

vainglorious chimera.

—
Loretta Serrano

 

 

Wife. Daughter. Dog.

Home. Miss them.

—
Joe Doyle

 

 

Someone should’ve objected at my

wedding.

—
Cynthia Ceilan

 

 

Want to return mail-order

bride.

—
David Tamarin

 

 

A short affair

but pure lust.

—
David Tamarin

 

 

He would have

been my forever.

—
Tina Blanchard

 

 

Heart swells, tears

come, “I do.”

—
Laurie Simpkinson