(I couldn't resist)
The other day I talked to an attractive, magnetic and hyper-energetic young man with a criminal past who had gone head over heels into some crazy love affair a very short while before his planned wedding with another woman, who has put him on the straight and narrow after years of reckless life, or so it seemed.
Obsessed with each other and confused with the situation, the lovers were considering their options (in the little time gaps between all the mad love and sex making, from what I gathered; I was impressed with the brevity, honesty and tactfulness of the description provided to me by the protagonist) and one of the scenarios was running away from all the mess they are creating (it's not how he put it though; by the way: she's decided to dump her partner, too - or rather tell him that she's already done so).
And - it won't surprise you - I thought that this is what the True Religion is about: just before you get committed to something that's going to end in death in the best-case scenario, or disaster in the disaster-case scenario, you run away with your True Love.
PS Not that you can't entrust your secrets to me; they're going public in a moment* - unless they run away.
*What? Have they already... ?
