Goodreads asked Bethany Thompson:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Bethany Thompson This is certainly not a fair question. How is one expected to choose? I’m going to be rebellious and pretend I’m allowed to pick two. I fell in love with L. M. Montgomery’s Barney and Valency Snaith in The Blue Castle the very first time I read it. Perhaps because they were as practical as I was raised to be. Their relationship started off with them just being friends – chums – and after a year of doing life together, they realized they didn’t want to live without the other person. Another story I enjoy re-reading is that of David and Ruth Langston, in Gene Stratton Porter’s The Harvester. I confess that I am fascinated by marriage of convenience stories in general, and although I skim over some of both L. M. Montgomery’s and Gene Stratton Porter’s woodland or other wordy descriptions, I love their clean and wholesome stories.

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