The key features bulleted as summary points of a House Style. You're looking for something , not knowing what it is. You meet someone . You laugh . There is a betrayal .
Someone leaves , someone is left , the leaver returns.
There is reconcilliation . There is a richer, sadder kind of happiness, perhaps until a death and a death . That is how it happens, how the story goes Ask your father his life, your mother hers, their parents before them. But just as you settle in this expectation, you can find it ripped awry. You wait for characters who do not appear.