Empty Compliments and Empty Pockets

I always believed that love would be enough to keep a relationship binding. I believed that if I loved him enough, maybe even more a smidgeon more than him, I could keep the relationship together. I would shower him with compliments, praises, and gifts, and all my love. Isn’t that what all the movies have shown?

But as I grew up and had my own relationships and watched others’ relationship, I started to see that love is never enough. It’s enough only during the happy and stable moments. But what happens when you are in a financial strait or emotional trauma?
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DragonCon Day 3

DragonCon 2013

Technically, Sunday is our last day at DragonCon as flying back to NYC on Monday can be hellish if you need to return to work the next day as I’ve learnt the year before. So to finish the last day, I woke up early to a quiet morning as most of the attendees are still fast asleep from a night of geeky and nerdy debauchery.
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DragonCon Day 2

DragonCon Parade

Day 2, the Saturday before Labor Day is the annual Dragoncon parade! The locals, children, and freaks and geeks come out to masquerade on the street and bask in the glory of costumes and nerdy celebrities! This is definitely a big thing that Atlantians love and loathe but mostly love. Locals are excited to serve us in restaurants, stop us for costume photos, and can’t stop talking about what they’ve seen.
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