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Nora Soriño . 

ILIGAN City — Love that culminates into marriage does not equal to romance, but domesticity. This, Charles, a company ads executive, felt in almost 20 years of married life with wife Deanna.

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So when he met Lucinda in a train in his daily commute, he found her very engaging. Then they ended up in some sleazy hotel. Their initial dialogue inside that hotel went this way.

He: “Woud you rather go back?”

She: “I want to f@#$ you.”

But their torrid actions that followed  were rudely interrupted by someone who just barged in. LaRoche was on the verge of brutally raping Lucinda and Charles appealed to him to leave her alone.

This stopped the guy somewhat in what he was doing and then said that he would do that if he gave him money. In other words, the guy blackmailed Charles!

What could Charles do but accede to what was being needed in the circumstances. He then gave the guy all the moolah that he had in his person. And promised something more thereafter.

They then went out of the hotel, with romance now farthest on the mind of Charles as he had to come up with the money LaRoche wanted.

He came up with the money that he and wife Deanna had saved for an experimental dialysis of teen-age  daughter Amy to cure the latter of her type 1 diabetes. This, without the knowledge, of course, of wifey. And this he took to that hotel. Days after, Lucinda and Charles still met with the woman offering to help in the money matters with Charles refusing as LaRoche still kept on blackmailing him.

Then one day, in his daily commute, he caught a glimpse  of Lucinda kissing LaRoche! So, that was it? He then stalked her and got to know that she wasn’t an executive of a company that she had mentioned but merely worked there for sometime as a clerk. More stalking on the woman revealed that what happened to him and her was a modus operandi. It was not by accident that they had met as he saw discreetly that she had trained her eyes on some other vulnerable man like him.

Charles then obtained a gun and followed the couple to that sleazy hotel and LaRoche disrupted that torrid love scene that was about to happen if not for that barging in of that dark character.

Both LaRoche and Lucinda were killed with another man shaken but profusely thanked Charles after the latter told him of the couple’s modus.

The closing scene sees Charles returning to his  problematic domestic home life but seeing them, wife Deanna and daughter Amy in another light. He really loves them.

This is taken from  a 2005 movie, “Derailed.” Maybe, what Charles felt after almost 20 years of marriage was a case of “familiarity breeds contempt.” He had become too familiar with wifey to the point of contempt. So, he became fascinated with some attractive but deadly stranger in Lucinda. (This was played by Jennifer Aniston, so you can imagine how really “deadly” Lucinda is.)

The title of this not very original piece of mine taken from said source (with apologies from the movie team) could have been, “a deadly Valentine” or “a terrible Valentine” or “a twisted Valentine story” or whatever.

What’s the morale in this? Sometimes it takes a deadly experience for us to realize that what we’ve got is our  true Valentine.

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