I don't know what it is, but I just can't seem to break emotion on these stories. It could be the 5000/year "touched by an angel" e-mails I get from the weeping community. Maybe it's the fact that so much honesty has been lost in some of these writers. They find someone with a half interesting life and then add a bunch of b.s. to enhance it. Believe me, I'm not rotten cored and capable of no feelings. I've been touched by many stories. I was touched by the movie "Frequency" where the son talks to his father in the past through a radio in an effort to save his life. In that case I knew the story was purely fictional so I could be in the mindset for it.
Also, I question why get married to someone that's not your true love? Getting married to counter loneliness is bound for destruction. Maybe if some of these people put more thought into that, then it would decrease the 50% divorce rate, there would be more happy marraiges, and there would be less animosity in our society. Maybe I fell this way about this story because I cannot relate to lost love. I found my true love and I wish the best for everyone else out there to do the same.
True story or not, at least it had a happy ending.
Serendipity anyone?