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  • Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday.

  • I have the flu and everything hurts, and I am miserable and the world is a smoking pile of burnt garbage, and today

  • I would like to try to cheer myself up, by telling you two love stories.

  • Okay, so back in January of 2012 when my book The Fault in Our Stars came out,

  • we went on tour for about a month, and one of our first stops was this hotel ballroom, outside of Washington DC.

  • Before that show, a bunch of nerdfighters met up to hang out, two of whom were Sara and Luis.

  • Now, they'd never met each other before, but they really hit it off on this day,

  • and so they exchanged contact information, and then eventually they began dating.

  • They fell in love, acquired a dog named Scout and a cat named Boo, and then decided to get married.

  • And they accomplished all of this while I was failing to write a new book.

  • But then I did write a new book.

  • And we announced that we were going on tour, and returning to Washington DC,

  • on a day that just happened to be two days before Luis and Sara's wedding.

  • 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,

  • where we presented them with a KitchenAid mixer and a bottle of champagne.

  • Because, you know, that's what you need in a new marriage:

  • love, a KitchenAid mixer, and something bubbly to celebrate with.

  • And then they got married! With lots of nerdfighter friends in attendance.

  • The wedding's dress code was, and I'm quoting directly here, 'comfortable but dressy rainbow colors.'

  • Which means it was almost certainly the greatest wedding ever.

  • And also, look at these nerdfighters!

  • Look at all of these wonderful people celebrating joy and love!

  • Behold hope and life and everything that is not influenza!

  • I just barfed between takes, so that's how my day's going. Let's go on to the second love story.

  • Okay, we're going back to 2012. So that October, I visited a library in Cincinnati.

  • And a couple days before the event, a guy named Kenny tweeted me to ask if he should skip his business law class to

  • come to my book reading, and I said no, because you know, school is more important, but he came anyway.

  • And he happened to sit next to someone named Amy.

  • They chatted before and after the show, exchanged contact information,

  • and then eventually fell in love! They got two dogs and three cats and bought a house together,

  • and then a couple days before our return to Cincinnati for the Turtles All the Way Down tour, Kenny wrote to me on Reddit.

  • He said, "I met my girlfriend five years ago at your book signing in Cincinnati.

  • I want to propose now, but don't know how. Any advice?"

  • Congratulations, Kenny and Amy! Here's a couple pieces of unsolicited wedding advice.

  • One: Nothing matters except whether you have an open bar, and

  • two: If at all possible, make your dress code comfortable, but dressy rainbow colors.

  • Now I know what the vast majority of you are thinking:

  • "Why hasn't this ever happened to me?" And fair enough.

  • But you have to remember, if you're lucky, this happens to you exactly once in your life.

  • Hank, we are surrounded by injustice, and we are also surrounded by microbes, and we must never

  • become complacent in the face of these horrors, which is my way of saying, remember to get your flu shot.

  • But we are also surrounded by love. Romantic love, friend love, family love;

  • as the poet wrote over 2000 years ago, "Love conquers all, and so we shall yield to it."

  • Thank you, to Amy and Kenny, and Sarah and Luis, and everyone else who has shared their love with us.

  • Hank, I am going to bed. I will see you on Friday.

Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday.

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兩個愛情故事 (Two Love Stories)

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