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When I Found You reads as an assignment for a creative writing class written by a C student. Unfortunately, it is the length of a novel. The characters are all stereotypes: We have elder sage Nathan McCann, who speaks in mind-numbing platitudes (ex: "I have always felt that the truth is simply the truth"); Nat, the misunderstood child who grows into a bad boy (with a heart of gold, of course); Nat's grandmother, a miserly shrew who incessantly harps at poor Nat; and Nathan's first wife, a chain-smoking, self-centered, late-middle-aged housewife who, after years of marriage with the taciturn, reclusive Nathan doesn't even make breakfast for him anymore (gasp!). Nat's girlfriend is so sweet she's crystallized; Nat's boxing mentor is taken straight out of an old boxing movie (cue wiry little guy with the cigar), and Nathan's second wife is the epitome of straight-laced widowhood, all cream pitchers and sugar bowls and vases... And, with such predictable characters, the reader is left with a totally predictable, boring plot. How boring? I have about five chapters left to go, and I have no interest in finishing it. When I Found You is like a made-for-TV-movie. It's okay when there's nothing else on. But with such good fiction out there, why waste your time?