Lesson 4: Love is Sacrifice
The lovely young woman with wild brown curls and turquoise blue eyes woke up to a powerful urge to cook something hot, tasty and healthy for the man she loved dearly. She jumped out of bed, ran out of her door, drove all the way to the market, and then finally let herself into the familiar kitchen and started cooking.
One and a half hours later, she sat dazedly on the pavement across the street. The big orange dog rested his head on her lap and whimpered. Around her, awed bystanders looked on with open mouths and wild fascination as firefighters from the TFD shouted instructions to each other and worked real hard to hose down the fire.
The tall dark movie star handsome police detective stood away from the crowd, gaping at his fire engulfed property in stunned disbelief. He finally walked up to the young woman, looked upward as if praying and then dropped to both knees and started crying. "I'm begging you, Stephanie, please stop using my kitchen as your lab whenever you feel like cooking something for him!"
"You know I can't do that, Joe." His wide-eyed ex-girlfriend exclaimed earnestly. "I can't possibly risk burning down the whole RangeMan building!"
Moral of the story: To love is to sacrifice, sometimes and unfortunately necessarily, someone else...
