I Love You #43

Rhonda Evans thinks romance is a joke—until Earl Fletcher proposes and she turns him down, worried that love leads only to heartbreak like her parents'. When Rhonda sees Earl moving on with someone else, she realizes what she's lost, but Earl has changed his tune, dismissing love as just another laugh. As Rhonda tries to find her way back to him, she discovers that sometimes the hardest thing to laugh at is the truth of your own heart.

Carol's love life takes a backseat when her boyfriend Grady Scott—a college football star turned professional prospect—leaves for summer training camp with the Pittsfield Panthers, promising to send for her soon. When his letters dry up and a newspaper photo reveals he's been spending time with beauty contestants instead, Carol decides it's time to take matters into her own hands and head to the training camp herself.

Martha Thedri has climbed from a small Nebraska town to become a celebrated fashion designer and society figure in New York—until a chance encounter with a Navy sailor named Scott Benson reminds her that not everyone is dazzled by her fame and carefully cultivated image. When the charming and unimpressed Scott keeps appearing in her world, Martha finds herself drawn to someone who sees past the glamorous facade she's built, leading to an evening that proves far more genuinely happy than all her publicized social triumphs combined.