"I met this guy," she says, the preamble to a tangled story that involves losing her four-bedroom home, her job and her mental well-being, along the way landing in Chattanooga.
Stephanie had just broken up with the latest in a string of boyfriends and was in tears, distraught over what-if situations that involved losing her shot at motherhood.
Do you have trouble keeping New Year's resolutions that involve losing weight or reading more?
As if to suggest you probably are not beach body ready, and that clearly the step to remedy that involves losing weight.
He said: "I'm not going to reconsider this - I am planning a medium-term financial strategy until 2018 and that strategy involves losing another £9m in cuts.
Damian Hinds, Conservative MP for East Hampshire, said competitive sport taught children "the power of a team, pushing yourself, and learning that life involves losing some things as well as winning".
Apparently it involves lost love, madness, castration, cats that speak, people giving birth to cats, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tolstoy and Genet – errr, amazing!
The oldest story in the book — which involves lost boys and an enormous shopping-mall Christmas tree — was written in 2004; "Buttony" is the newest.
We have a proud, multilayered history just like any franchise, it's just that all of it involves losing, sometimes heartbreakingly, sometimes hilariously.
Of course hitting can escalate, because it involves losing control.
