Date people from Normal Heights, United States. The romanticized notion that a man and a woman meet, discover they are soul mates, and smoothly sail into a lasting bliss is bland even for fairy tales. Romance epics always include the drama of setbacks----love stacked against insurmountable obstacles----that fade by requisite happy ending. Boy meets girl is nearly always followed by boy loses girl. This story line fits the cliche' that the course of true love never runs smooth.