The reverse is true, too, Yvonne. A friend of a friend almost got yanked out of teachers' seminary in England when her mother received no letters for a month -- the deal was three times a week.

An angry phone call produced a tearful but insistent daughter. She had been faithfully writing a letter home every day! Turns out what she thought were post-office-boxes were garbage cans eek . . . oops!


Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you, like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says, "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly.

- Under the Tuscan Sun