Goodreads asked Rebecca Lloyd:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Rebecca Lloyd I'd have to be much more of a reader to be able to answer this question well. Also the idea having a favorite of anything means that you're in the habit of ranking one idea, experience, character or story maybe above another, and I've never done that as far as I can recall. That's not to say that I don't admire some novels and their writers and despair of others because of course I do. I would find myself hard put though, to remember all the characters out of all the fiction I have read... my brain is probably too sieve-like. I would admire someone whose memory was so good, and it is possible that an avid reader could do. Readers and writers are different animals indeed, our brains function differently. So after all that waffle the real true answer to your question is I can't remember any fictional couples ..... except Ethan Frome and the young girl he fell for in Edith Wharton's novel 'Ethan Frome,' but the reason I remember that is because while some of Edith Wharton's work could be considered a little boring, her writing was very wonderful in that book. So, as a writer, it is the wonderful writing of others that stays with me, rather than the specifics of the characters which would be a lot more interesting to a reader.

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