That night, she didn't offer empty platitudes. Instead, she offered a lens. "You’re looking at romance like it’s a checklist," she said. "But real storylines aren't about checklists. They are about narrative arcs."
"The Notebook," I said instinctively.
She drew a diagram on our whiteboard:
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