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A theme that is covered in various stories is the theme that even if people appear happy on the outside, on the inside there is almost always some sorrow either hidden deep in their heart and soul or being shown to people of the world. There are many different types of sorrow shown or hidden in many different ways in multiple stories, and is sometimes overcome. A Secret Sorrow is a story about a woman, Faye, who is sorrowful that she cannot have children. She hides this from her boyfriend Kai at first by telling him she loves him but cannot marry him, and has not “given a satisfactory reason and I’ll {Kai} be damned if I’m going to accept your lack of explanations.” This sentence also shows that Kai has sorrow over Faye not marrying him. She is sorrowful also because she thinks that when she tells him that “you wouldn’t want me anymore” and that “you’ll be disappointed.” When she tells him she cannot have children “her voice was an agonized cry, torn from the depths of her misery.” They worked out the problem and got married and adopted children and she found that “there was love in his embrace and love in his words and in her heart there was no room now for doubt, no room for sorrow.” Faye and Kai