Satan: Wanna hear a story?

Tom: Have I heard it before?

Satan: I don't know. It's about a guy and a girl who went out together for a while. Not too long, not years or anything, but long enough to get pretty attached to one another. They fought all the time and the girl always wondered how much the guy loved her. She'd only been in love one other time and it ended badly, so she couldn't help but question his every move.

They fought back and forth, each fight worse than the last, until finally, the guy broke it off once and for all. He said that if two people truly loved each other they should let each other go instead of being miserable together.

Tom: What did the girl say?

Satan: She took it as proof that he never really loved her.

Tom: To love and not be loved in return...it happens to all of us.

Satan: But what if the guy really did love her? What if the sorrow continued to hit him in waves, long after the initial break-up? What if he was the kind of person who, for better or worse, gives everything when they love someone...mind, body, and soul?

Tom: And the magnitude of the loss changes him, forever?

Satan: Precisely.

Tom: Yeah I don't think I need to hear that sob story.

Satan: Okay.