Making sure everyone has a valid passport that doesn't expire soon. Keeping more cash on hand. Staying connected with the neighbors who support the new regime, so I know what the plans are. Waiting; as my German grandmother who was a WWII survivor used to say, "you can rebuild it later."

I heard this somewhere; it's not mine. "The most important love you'll ever have is the love affair you have with yourself."

What is an odd romance? Odd as in the number of participants or the personality/characteristics of said participants and their romance?