"Maybe not wrong so much as it's looking at potential over what's already there? I don't know." Hal rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Carol's love life was always a train wreck - which I'll admit up front is largely my fault - but she's still a hell of a Star Sapphire. If you love something, and things don't work out, that might be enough, too."

He glanced around, to where Sam was fussing over pink and getting noogied by Rich. "Far as I know, the kid doesn't have anything going, either. Maybe it's not even that it can only be romantic love, so much as you've got that kind of passion for something."