"a romantic trial by fire"? Are you serious, RacerX? Of course you are.
Folks, the more I read these analyses by some ex-pats, the more convinced I am that they "know" our society. Well, considering the non-Dominican readership here, they may be "correct." Let's call it the Anglo angle, or better yet, el ?ngulo anglosaj?n, (but you can accentuate the middle syllable in ?ngulo, as you folks are fond of doing with most multi-syllabic words).
?E'to no e' corral de chivo!
Diablo! I see a load of rep points coming my way to challenge the toma-y-dame-puntos agreement between jrhartley and the would-be percussionist.