If you were given the opportunity to go back in time to one moment in your life, what would it be? Would you relive it the same way or would you live it differently?
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In the middle of the night, I occasionally awake to feel my husband’s hand reaching underneath my pajamas and caressing my body. He does this half asleep and sometimes does not even know he is massaging my breasts or butt. If he persists in touching my body, I roll toward him and we begin kissing. Small pecks quickly turn into deep, passionate, long kisses.
Without any words, he takes off my shirt. He sticks his foot in the elastic of my pants and drags them down and off my legs. Then he presses my naked body against his. In the hazy, dream-like world, we make love.
When we are satisfied, I roll away from him. His arm under my body, wrapping me tightly. I lie on his biceps, my pillow. I cuddle his arm and return to sleep.
No words are ever spoken, but it is the most intimate sensation…our dreaming of one another to awake and fulfill each other’s desires, then to return to our slumber knowing that it is more than just a dream.
Fireproof is a movie that was released in September about a firefighter asked by his father to take a 40-day marriage challenge before divorcing his wife of seven years. The challenge involves reading and following an invented book The Love Dare, “which eventually transforms him and his view of love, marriage, and faith.” So test audiences for the movie asked how they could get the book–which didn’t exist.
Brothers Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick, pastors at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, and creators of Sherwood Pictures, who directed and produced the movie, “shut out the world and wrote for several weeks” to create a book “that helps readers learn each day about a unique aspect of the nature of love and offers a ‘dare’ to help implement that characteristic into their marriage.”
B&H Publishing Group sold more than 300,000 copies in advance of the movie’s release and vice president of marketing John Thompson says, “This is the fastest-selling book we’ve ever handled.”
“Books, inherently, require faith. Faith in an author that he or she will reward the many hours you’ll spend in those pages, faith that a good story will be told, a lesson will be learned, a light will be shone upon a dim corner of the world. If you’re reading this magazine, with its vast and rich history of literary achievement, you’re alive to the pleasures of reading–for school or for no good reason at all. Now you have to give teenagers the benefit of the doubt, that they know what you know, that they do read and will read, that they will keep books alive, as alive as ever–that they will continue to pull the books from the shelves and add to those shelves books of their own.”
–Dave Eggers in Esquire magazine
Fewer refers to things that are countable. When the nouns are countable, they are plural in the sentence with “fewer.”
Example: Fewer people attended the fundraiser than we had hoped.
Example: Fewer tornadoes occurred this year.
Less refers to things that are not countable. When the nouns are not countable, they are singular in the sentence with “less.”
Example: We had less rain this year than last.
Example: Less talking would help my concentration.
Try It!
Directions: In the following sentences, determine whether fewer or less should be used.
1. There was _____ laundry to clean because some of the children were away with friends.
2. Though there are _____ houses on the market, the prices have not decreased.
3. With _____ food to make for dinner, each person needs to eat a little more conservatively tonight.
4. Each week the doctor receives more calls, but returns _____ than half.
5. There were _____ dogs in the yard today, so we used _____ dog food.