Makes me wonder how many other people there are like this living incredible lives fit for a movie. And here I am staring at excel.
We pass on; and some day we come, at the end of a very dull life, to reflect that our romance has been a pallid thing of a marriage or two, a satin rosette kept in a safe-deposit drawer, and a lifelong feud with a steam radiator.
Not suggesting you're stealing it, probably it is more famous to you, but I'd never heard it, nor of the story, nor of the author before.
His most famous short story was probably "The Gift of the Magi" but I quoted "The Green Door".