Some people, when they read books, imagine themselves as the heroes of these books. Girls dream of beautiful love and romantic deeds of valour that men perform for them. Correction: hot, charismatic, handsome men. Alpha males, in a word, and nothing else.
Emily always perceived such fantasies as nonsense of the overage teenage girls. Firstly, before that, her first and only love - Peter Miller - did not really look like an alpha male. And secondly. Well, secondly... ok, just check out the firstly section. What difference does it make to what a person looks like if you love him?
Such thing sometimes happens: the candles on a person's cake seem to increase in number, marking the years gone by, and the brains remain at the high school level. There are times when the brains begin to dry out immediately after graduation from college.