The Heartbreakers Blog Tour Day 2

In a paragraph or two:
1. Tell us about your most romantic experience (either as an adult or as a teenager).

When the film Titanic first came out on the big screen, my husband and I had only been married a little over a year. We lived in the city in a small apartment, didn’t have a car, and either bussed / took the train / walked or rode our mountain bikes everywhere. I worked three jobs while my husband went to university and in addition to his studies, he also worked through weekends.

Finding time together was a challenge – but that film….there was something epic about it. I’d get off work and meet my husband at a cool old vintage theatre in the artsy part of town. We’d take in the late show and be swept away by Rose and Jack’s tragic story.

We saw the film at least five times the few weeks it was out. Years later, at dinner with friends, my husband confessed he had been sick of the film after the second time we went, but he’d loved that – each show - I’d anticipate the ending and start crying and snuggle into his arms for most of the film. So he kept taking me.
In a place in our lives when spending money on a movie was a big deal, when a few free hours of “us” time was practically non-existent – well, those nights were all about romance and love.

2. Which literary character embodies true romance to you?

Heathcliff from Emily Bronte’s, Wuthering Heights. Tall, dark, brooding – a self-made man with something to prove, a little bit twisted and out of his head – madly in love with Catherine. So much so that he begs her ghost to haunt him for all eternity. Forget Fifty Shades…

 

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In a paragraph or two:
1. Tell us about your most romantic experience (either as an adult or as a teenager).

In high school my most romantic experience was when I had a crush on the school president. I was the “Rachel” of my Theater Department, and we drama nerds didn’t really hang out with the popular kids (thankfully we didn’t get slushes in our faces). A friend of mine told him I like him, and he surprised me by asking me to prom by posting it on the digital banner in the cafeteria for everyone to see!

As a grown up, my most romantic moment was actually the completely corny, sticky sweet “line” a man gave me shortly after meeting me. I was starring in a show, and he was in the chorus. He came up to me backstage and said, “I want you to record a CD of lullabies, so I can fall asleep to your voice every night.” I know. It worked, though. We’ve been married for 6 years now.

2. Which literary character embodies true romance to you?

Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility. His devotion to Marianne, even when she is besotted with that louse John Willoughby, is so honorable and complete. She finally sees it toward the end of the novel, thank goodness.




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