HAPPY ENDINGS

(This activity is based upon an idea by Margaret Atwood. We all like happy endings but,unfortunately, life is never like that... See the alternative endings to the same love story: John & Mary ....
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John and Mary meet . What happens next?

If you want a happy ending try A and H.

A) John and Mary fall in love and get married. They both have challenging and stimulating jobs.They buy a charming house.They have 2 children. John and Mary have a fascinating sex life and worthwhile friends. They go on fun vacations together.They retire...Eventually ..they die:he first and then she...And this is the end of the story.

B) Mary falls in love with John but John does not fall in love with Mary. He only uses her body for selfish pleasure and ego gratification. He comes to her apartment twice a week and she cooks him dinner.........

C)John, who is an older man, falls in love with Mary and Mary, who is 22 years old, feels sorry for him because he´s worried about his health and his hair falling out. She sleeps with him even though she is not in love with him. She is in love with a former schoolmate, called James , who is 22,too.

D) John has a bad heart condition and dies quickly. Mary devotes herself to charity work until she dies of cancer...

E) John is a revolutionary and Mary a counterespionage agent..

F)John wakes up in Mary´s bed. Two weeks later he receives a phone call from Mary saying that she is pregnant. Two months into the pregnancy, she has a miscarriage. He wants to leave her.

Mary goes mental and locks him in the house until he finds a gun and shoots her.

G) John is still waiting for an answer from Mary after he proposed to her.......

H) John and Mary meet on the way to school every day. They chat, laugh, run, dance and do everything together. They´re like twins: inseparable. Mary realises she´s starting to fall for John but isn´t quite sure about how to tell him. She spends hours every day figuring out how to tell him about how he feels, but never finds the right opportunity.

Months go by and she finally plucks up the courage to go and tell him straight off. She walks up to him, and seeing her, they both say"I have something to tell you"; they laugh and Mary says:"You, first, please"

" I have a girlfriend" the dreaded words that Mary will never forget..There was a long pause: "What did you want to say?"

"Oh, it´s nothing" she said before turning away..

Over the next few years John and Mary grew apart scarcely seeing each other at all. They both graduated and went to different universities until they lost touch completely.

Ten years later they were secretly set up on a date by their school friends, and they were reunited for the first time in many years.......

I)John met Mary  when they were both in hospital for some routine tests.....

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ENDINGS ARE ALWAYS THE SAME(JOHN & MARY DIE)BEGINNINGS ARE ALWAYS MORE FUN