On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.
Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.