Experience: Gratification

bree and nathan getting together in the end: "I gather all of my strength for my next words. 'Your ability to shoulder everything, to give 200 percent of yourself all the time, to be perfect at everything you attempt…these are not the attributes that make you a valuable human being.' I pause. 'And they are not why I fell in love with you.'" ... "'I love you too,' he whispers over and over again. 'I love you, Bree. I love you, I always have.'"

FitzSimmons finally getting their happy ending after many ups and downs in their relationship - getting married and having a daughter

"a mortal man who outwits the gods, talks with the dead, feasts on endless ox flesh and Dionysian drink, enjoys the most gorgeous music in history, spends seven years in the embrace of a nymph and another year in the bed of a beautiful witch, and finally returns home to find his ageless wife waiting faithfully" (Fletcher 168).