The Dear John letter is classically romance, but you are right - it is removing something you "knew" to be safe. More importantly, it is removing something you counted on to be there to support you when you got back.
More importantly, there needs to be an element of personal betrayal. And nothing you could do about it because you weren't back home.
LC
On December 12, 2006 03:35 pm, Jane Williams wrote:
> But if someone's telling me it can't be done, I'll
> just have to figure out how to do it. Looks like the
> underlying principle isn't romance per se, it's having
> something that you'd relied on as being safe, secure,
> home, etc. taken out from under your feet.
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> Right. That, we can do, in lots of interesting ways.
> We were starting to lose track of all the "support
> staff" NPCs, it must be time to kill a few more off.
> Ooh, yes, now I think of it, this works rather nicely,
> just got to figure a bit of logistics... oh, drat,
> that's even more enemy and allied groups to track!
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