This is a big ol' sweet love story about sons, the families we make and red patent leather.

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He says that while we, the national media, love a good scandal story, voters often make their choices based on - wait for it - the actual issues, and if they feel they know the candidate they're voting for.

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We hardly have the vocabulary to describe a cornball love story, built around images of catastrophe startling enough to make your eyes pop, that isn't just swoony or awesome but, in fact, profound.

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But then there's also this back story that kind of has this lost love who died, and he never was able to make enough money to really buy her the things that he thought that she would like.

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