16. For the first time in his life, he found himself imagining a future together with someone. He was embarrassed to tell her this but he had never really been in love with the women he had dated. "Well who would play me in this rom-com of your life?" she teasingly inquired. "You have such beautiful olive skin," he crooned, "so you can be a person of color or racially ambiguous in the book but definitely a white woman in the movie."