I don't see gender(unless it involves sex), race, or nationality; just assholes and non assholes.

I wanted it to be something memorable.

She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

It wouldn't have been a real memorable one,