Plot | Jeremy Stensrud

After breaking up with his girlfriend, Jay is left alone at the table with the check and free refills. He thinks of the saying "It is better to have loved and lost than to ever have loved at all." He thinks that must mean that the memories of what was lost outweigh the loss itself. Maybe, but it doesn't seem so in his case. What about having loved and never gained at all? "It is worse to have loved and not gained, than to ever have loved at all?" Now there is a thought. What if all the depression, suicide, and crimes caused by love all came about because people were looking at it the wrong way? Because nobody had bothered to change the tradition?

His friends and family appear to all have found out about the break-up before noon the next day, and during the phone calls, e-mails, and visits, he tells them about his new theory on love he had worked up the night before while not sleeping, only to find that nobody agrees with him. This can only mean one thing: He is a genius on the cutting edge.