"I prefer the romance of waking up every day thinking you have a choice.
He's planning an Ibiza-style event to rekindle the thrill of their clubbing courtship, but Jenni prefers vintage romance.
A lot of her friends, she felt, would prefer a romance that didn't simply end with a chaste kiss and nothing more.
Among the landscape photographers, Janet Glazer is attracted to the fascinating textures and patterns of ancient stone structures, as various as the winding path to a graveyard and the imposing embankment at Mont-St.-Michel, while Michael Iacobellis prefers the romance of fog-shrouded trees and harbors.
As the producer tries to impress Madonna, he comes to know that she does not like material things, but rather prefers simple romance.
Cat and Kelly, a pair of 20- and 21-year-old friends who are so close that they look and talk like sisters, told me their theories on why the younger generation prefers fantastical romance to flesh and blood lovers: For youngsters who came of age downing Harry Potter novels, it's a short jump to imagine the characters getting it on.
Or do you prefer gay romance stories?
For my money, certainly for the cost of a Mets' gold-date ticket, I'd have preferred the peculiar Romance language called Stengelese to the bland Art of Howe, a seat in the old Polo Grounds to a view of the Shea Stadium parking lot, comic relief from players nicknamed (out of necessity) Righty Bob and Lefty Bob Miller to the terminal dullness of the modern Mets.
Though she had a knack for comedy, Hearst preferred her to do romance because, as he said with crippling gentlemanliness, 'I'm not going to let Marion be hit in the face with a pie'.
Or the title character in "Sally J. Freedman," a Jewish fifth grader who dreams of silver-screen stardom and would rather play "Detective" or "War" than the "Love and Romance" game preferred by her friends.
