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The people at Tootsie Roll said it best: "Whatever it is I think I see, becomes a Tootsie Roll to me."

I have a friend who is going though some hard times. She is guilty, as I have been MANY times in life, of something so simple it is often obscured: looking for love. She wants so badly to find "the one" that when someone presents the possibility of being that person, she makes him out to be more than he is. She paints the face of the person she wants him to be over the top of his own. This works well for a while. However, after some time, the paint wears thin, and she is left starring at the face of a man she doesn't know and doesn't love. She feels betrayed because he is no longer the man he was and she feels great loss because the hopes and dreams she had with him are being wiped away with the paint on his face.

It is a sad situation. Unfortunately, it cannot be remedied with anything other than time, and cannot be prevented with anything other than retrospect. She'll get through this. I'll see to it.