Reality vs. Fairytale in Boyle's "The Love of My Life"

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Your first thought after reading the title of this short story may have been that it is going to be a romantic love story. We have all read stories and watched movies about fairytales that all had happy endings, but this story is much different. In this particular short story it is about the love that two teenagers share for one another. The relationship between the two completely shades all the other important aspects in their lives. The young couple China and Jeremy were always together, they did everything together. "They wore eachother like a pair of socks." (381). China wanted what a lot of people only dream about, a love life that we all watch on tv and movies and read about in books. China and Jeremy had been intimate from the very beginning of their relationship, but she wanted more. [“She kept thinking of the way it was in the movies, where the stars ambushed each other on beds the size of small planets and then did it again and again until they lay nestled in a heap of pillows and blankets, her head on his chest, his arm flung over her shoulder, the music fading away to individual notes plucked softly on a guitar and everything in the frame glowing as if it had been sprayed with liquid gold. That was how it was supposed to be.”] (381). China desired more than just a teenage relationship, she looked at she and Jeremy and saw a more mature relationship and wanted to experience just that. We all want that fairytale relationship that we see on tv and read about in books, for instance you could refer to a Nicholas Sparks novel and all the romantic things that the couples experience. The young couple sustained a lack of reality, many people may agree that they were in lust with one another other than being in love, both wanting to experience that certain romantic feeling. Neither China's nor Jeremy's parents were around when they were needed most, the

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