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Step 2: Get some distance. If your wedding day seems like a Jerry Springer episode and you don't want to meet another surprise guest, there's no shame in the runaway game. Jane, for one, hits the road, bums it up, meets long-lost missionary relatives and inherits a fortune. Next to diamonds, a few thousand pounds a year is a girl's best friend. Soon, however, Jane's chilly cousin Reverend Rivers proposes marriage with the promise of a lifetime honeymoon spent preaching to unenlightened savages of India. While a man of the cloth suggests some stability, marrying...
...Rebecca cannot quite bring herself to embrace Aegeon, her long-lost husband, in the form of Dustin Barrera, 10. No matter--the teacher is impressed. Did anyone help her rehearse the lines? he asks. The diminutive citizens of Ephesus erupt in laughter. It's an inside joke: as the teacher well knows, none of his actors come from English-speaking homes...
...then die, in agony, at the hands of his ancestors. Sir Rutheven has faked his own death and has disguised himself as the sweet, disarming young farmer Robin Oakapple, who has such low self-esteem that he cannot confess his love to Rose without the help of his long-lost foster brother, the entertaining sailor Richard Dauntless (Francis Crick '03). Angle is ideally cast as the naive, helpless Robin, who becomes even more inept at doing his daily evil deed once his true identity is revealed, although he is creative in his short-lived crime spree, managing to disinherit...
...Unlike popular favorites Yahoo, Excite and Lycos, which have morphed into monstrous slicer-dicer portals offering everything from daily horoscopes to free e-mail, Google does only one thing--search--and does it spectacularly. Whether I'm looking for a home remedy for sinusitis or trying to find a long-lost friend online, it has an uncanny knack for locating what I want...
...young man who, while undergoing video therapy with his parents, sees a tape of an Armenian family wracked with guilt over giving up their son to a foster home years ago. The protagonist, Peter, craves a new role in life, so he presents himself to the family as their long-lost son, an act that leads to dark visions concerning cultural displacement and the line between role-playing and reality...