Niffenegger admits she wrote it after being unfriended by a woman (interestingly in today's slang dumping a friend or lover is called "ghosting').
Images of the massive garbage patch floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are enough to guilt any environmentalist or animal-lover into dumping a paycheck into the Ocean Conservancy, but seeing one in your own backyard is a whole different story.
Dumping a leech of a partner sucks.
Arion Berger from Rolling Stone noticed the story line of Madonna "dumping" her lover in the song, but felt that her vocals were "infantile" and her delivery was "flat".
The women are so powerless that dumping even a violent lover can be difficult.
In many instances, a female client often gets dumped by her lover once her lover realizes that she wants to get divorced in order to be with him.
A young woman dumps her lover and moves in with her ex-boyfriend and his current girlfriend, resulting in a few steamy sex scenes.
The villain is her ex, a "hasbian" who dumps her pregnant lover for a man, then swoops in begging for their old life back.
She was widowed a few months later during the civil war with Pancho Villa: then dumped another lover to become the mistress of Jose Vasconcelos, a Mexican intellectual and failed presidential candidate who nicknamed her a "tropical Scheherazade".
In his last, Angelica Lost and Found, a hippogriff escapes from a painting and lands in San Francisco outside the window of a Jewish gallery owner who has just dumped her lover.
