ABSTRACT
Sometimes it's a relief to have a strong relationship between a man and a woman that evolves into friendship and nothing else. In Norma Rae, Sally Field's Norma has her world completely transformed by a man named Reuben who comes to town to start a union in the textile mill where she works. The stakes are high. She is someone who has been discounted by the world. She has been a waitress and now a factory worker. In the novel The Pelican Brief by John Grisham, the two main characters have a romance while embroiled in the thriller plotline. Of Mice and Men is a classic, powerfully moving friendship between two men. Heartbreaking. Friendship love stories also has a sub-genre of the old and the very young. Often a grandparent. Heidi is no less of a love story than any other, all the versions. The child who melts the hardened heart of a bitter old man.
