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Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday.
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I have the flu and everything hurts, and I am miserable and the world is a smoking pile of burnt garbage, and today
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I would like to try to cheer myself up, by telling you two love stories.
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Okay, so back in January of 2012 when my book The Fault in Our Stars came out,
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we went on tour for about a month, and one of our first stops was this hotel ballroom, outside of Washington DC.
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Before that show, a bunch of nerdfighters met up to hang out, two of whom were Sara and Luis.
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Now, they'd never met each other before, but they really hit it off on this day,
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and so they exchanged contact information, and then eventually they began dating.
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They fell in love, acquired a dog named Scout and a cat named Boo, and then decided to get married.
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And they accomplished all of this while I was failing to write a new book.
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But then I did write a new book.
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And we announced that we were going on tour, and returning to Washington DC,
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on a day that just happened to be two days before Luis and Sara's wedding.
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And even though it was, of course, a very busy time for them, they managed to make it to the Turtles All the Way Down tour,
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where we presented them with a KitchenAid mixer and a bottle of champagne.
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Because, you know, that's what you need in a new marriage:
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love, a KitchenAid mixer, and something bubbly to celebrate with.
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And then they got married! With lots of nerdfighter friends in attendance.
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The wedding's dress code was, and I'm quoting directly here, 'comfortable but dressy rainbow colors.'
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Which means it was almost certainly the greatest wedding ever.
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And also, look at these nerdfighters!
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Look at all of these wonderful people celebrating joy and love!
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Behold hope and life and everything that is not influenza!
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I just barfed between takes, so that's how my day's going. Let's go on to the second love story.
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Okay, we're going back to 2012. So that October, I visited a library in Cincinnati.
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And a couple days before the event, a guy named Kenny tweeted me to ask if he should skip his business law class to
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come to my book reading, and I said no, because you know, school is more important, but he came anyway.
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And he happened to sit next to someone named Amy.
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They chatted before and after the show, exchanged contact information,
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and then eventually fell in love! They got two dogs and three cats and bought a house together,
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and then a couple days before our return to Cincinnati for the Turtles All the Way Down tour, Kenny wrote to me on Reddit.
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He said, "I met my girlfriend five years ago at your book signing in Cincinnati.
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I want to propose now, but don't know how. Any advice?"
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Congratulations, Kenny and Amy! Here's a couple pieces of unsolicited wedding advice.
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One: Nothing matters except whether you have an open bar, and
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two: If at all possible, make your dress code comfortable, but dressy rainbow colors.
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Now I know what the vast majority of you are thinking:
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"Why hasn't this ever happened to me?" And fair enough.
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But you have to remember, if you're lucky, this happens to you exactly once in your life.
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Hank, we are surrounded by injustice, and we are also surrounded by microbes, and we must never
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become complacent in the face of these horrors, which is my way of saying, remember to get your flu shot.
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But we are also surrounded by love. Romantic love, friend love, family love;
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as the poet wrote over 2000 years ago, "Love conquers all, and so we shall yield to it."
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Thank you, to Amy and Kenny, and Sarah and Luis, and everyone else who has shared their love with us.
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Hank, I am going to bed. I will see you on Friday.
