You pays yer money and you takes yer chances.

A few, like Ol' Yeller, WERE your best friend, then they go totally rabid.

Now obviously there's some clues going in, in hindsight anyway, as to how she might act ten, twenty years down the line. But seems like lots of guys get totally blindsided.

I figure just plain ol' luck has a lot to do with it.

Birdwatcher

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744