High School Sweethearts Reunite, Get Engaged After 23 Years Apart

The article opens with a stereotypical set up explaining the high school love connection between a couple, separated and reunited by what must be fate.   This is a pathos appeal to all of the saps reading the article.   Also, by setting the story up as a movie plot line, the author appeals to women, because the majority of love story viewers are women, and many women's idea of a perfect love story is a replica of these movies.   By opening the article is this manner, the author catches the attention of many women readers, including myself.   The author then goes into detail, explaining the timeline of events.   It is the perfect love story.   The couple met in high school and fell in love.   The women tell the author that this was love at first sight.  The couple suffers a separation after high school as the young woman moves hundreds of miles away, but their love for each other is so strong that not even years of total separation could break their infinite bond.  With lost hope, so many miles apart, they marry other people, but neither forget their love for one another./  There is always something missing.   The woman admits that she always questioned her relationship with er husband because he was not nearly as sensitive as her high school love.   Once again, the author is appealing to woman, drawing the picture of the ideal man, the sensitive, caring gentleman.   The readers are now hooked, rooting for the reconnect ion of this couple.   Both divorce their spouses, understanding that their relationships are not enough, and meet up so many years later.   They meet on "a bridge in a park in New York," the perfect picture.   They both "cry" as the hug, and recognize the passion that never left them.  The author paints this picture as if it were captured by a sappy artist in order to remember an indescribable moment.   The author goes on to reveal the happy ending.   A year after meeting up, the man proposes to his love on the bridge where they met and rekindled their love for one another.   How romantic!  The author finishes the article, comparing the couple's love story to that of a movie, appealing to pathos.  By comparing their story to one of a romantic movie he appeals to the idea that a perfect ending is possible.   The perfect ending to a perfect love story.