Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.