Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford

He'll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands) and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club.īut when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that.Īs Sam's birthday approaches and he still hasn't quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets.Ī mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he's only seen in a dream might have the answers he's been looking for-but time is running out to save the people he cares about.

The three components are: Intimacy, which involves feelings. Some of these types of love are focused on the love between two people in a romantic or sexual relationship, but these types of love also apply to other forms of interpersonal relationships. Video playlists about Love 10 talks Wisdom for living with death and loss An exploration of what makes life worth living in the face of death and how to move forward with grief and loss. Sam doesn't plan to fall for anyone in the weeks before his birthday. In Sternberg's theory, the concept of love is a triangle that is made up of three components. Why and how do we fall in love In these TED Talks, scientists, psychologists, poets and painters explore the mystery of romance. The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations-if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies. 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only guy in my school who can replace a faulty kick-down switch and also create the perfect smoky eye.'

Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford