Guede chose to be tried separately from Knox and Sollecito because he feared a pact between the former lovers.

BBC: Profile: Kercher killer Rudy Guede

Yet New York and New Jersey police believe they have sufficient evidence to have charged Ko with two violent, gruesome acts - both against former lovers.

CNN: NIGHTMARE IN NEW YORK

It can even be an exorcism of sorts, feeding photos of former lovers or ridiculously large medical bills into the metal teeth, one piece at a time.

WSJ: Paper Shredders: Finding Shredded Bliss

For more than three decades, movie lovers have come to this former mining town almost 9, 000 feet up in the Rockies for refresher courses in where the medium has been (neglected or downright unknown classics from the silent and sound eras alike) as well as where it's at.

WSJ: Telluride Thrills

Maybe here is something both lovers and despisers of Apple (and I, full disclosure, am in the former camp) can agree on: There really is something admirable, enviable, but also almost creepy in the passions the company and its products inspire.

FORBES: The Religion of Apple

Another major destination for art-lovers is MoMA PS1, part of the Museum of Modern Art, located in a former Long Island City public school.

WSJ: Queens hotel boom brings NYC tourists across river

Journal For Plague Lovers, the Welsh band's ninth studio album, sees them set the lyrics of former band member Richey Edwards to music, 14 years after the 27-year-old disappeared from the Embassy Hotel in London's Bayswater.

BBC: Supermarkets cover up Manics CD