http://dir.salon.com/topics/american_love/?source=rss&aim=american_love en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT Edited by John Bowe Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/05/04/gerd_dina/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/05/04/gerd_dina/index.html?source=rss One day, he comes in my house and says, "What happened with your husband? He has an affair with my wife!" Edited by John Bowe Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/04/20/aubrey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/04/20/aubrey/index.html?source=rss "I've dated 300 women since my wife died. Some of them I date for one night and I don't want to see them again. Others I want to see. They have to have a brain." By John Bowe Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/04/06/dory/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/04/06/dory/index.html?source=rss "If someone had told me that we would ever get back together, I would have laughed. Because it wasn't just a separation. We really did sever the ties." Edited by John Bowe Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/03/09/pastor_craig/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/03/09/pastor_craig/index.html?source=rss "I went to go get a vasectomy on a Thursday. And then Sam called crying on the phone on Saturday and said she was pregnant. And our whole world just changed in that moment." By John Bowe Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/02/23/rebecca/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/02/23/rebecca/index.html?source=rss Most of our conversations were conducted between the Mexican busboy. Hector couldn't speak English, so he would talk to the busboy in Portuguese, and the busboy would speak to me in English. And then we arranged to go on a date. By John Bowe Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/02/09/shawn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/02/09/shawn/index.html?source=rss "I met my ex-wife, Jackie, when she was 12 years old and I was 17. We kind of had this little thing." Edited by John Bowe Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/01/26/louise/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/01/26/louise/index.html?source=rss "Do you know the dollar dance? You pay a dollar to dance with the groom ... And you just dance for a minute. Heartbreaking. And after that we didn't have contact for 15 years." By John Bowe Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/01/12/paul/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/american_love/2009/01/12/paul/index.html?source=rss I turned to her and said, "Could I take you to your home?" She looks at me and -- with a pause -- she says, "If you got a quarter you can go anywhere you want."