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"Anna and I have a serious love of romantic comedies. They&amp;#039;ve become a great Mother/Daughter sort of thing we do and it&amp;#039;s always awesome when we find a new one. We were re-watching one of our favorites the other day before bed, and once I got David settled in for the night, she was hanging out in my room and we were talking about the way Nicholas Sparks always puts those hokey endings on his movies and books. I pointed out that dramatic deaths and tearjerker endings are what people go to movies for, after all. Anna agreed, but then she said &amp;quot;Well, the whole thing is fantasy anyway, don&amp;#039;t you think? People don&amp;#039;t fall in love like that in real life. Nobody believes in that fairy-tale kind of love anymore.&amp;quot; I turned to her without hesitation and said &amp;quot;I do.&amp;quot; She seemed surprised and I said it again. &amp;quot;I do, Anna. Even though your Dad and I didn&amp;#039;t end up making it work, I still believe in all that stuff. The hearts and flowers, the fairy tale, the romance and happily ever after. I&amp;#039;ve known people that live it.&amp;quot;  It made me kind of sad that she&amp;#039;s got such a jaded picture of love at the age of thirteen, and I feel like her Dad and I are partly responsible for that. I&amp;#039;m certainly not unrealistic - I&amp;#039;m not waiting for some knight in shining armor to show up and sweep me off my feet and solve all my problems for me and never have a single flaw or bad habit. But I do believe that love, real and deep and abiding love, is within reach for a lot of us. Maybe even me. I&amp;#039;m too much of a romantic at heart to give up on it. I guess until I find it, I&amp;#039;ll keep the stacks of DVD&amp;#039;s and stock up on the popcorn.  Do you still believe in &amp;#039;Happily Ever After?&amp;#039; Or do you think that only happens in the movies? [Follow Ellie at SingleMomtism.com or on Facebook and Twitter] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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