There's a word going around these days, and it has been subjected to frequent mistreatment. The word is ambivalence. Let's break the word in half. Ambi is from the latin and means both, valence means power. Put the two halved together, and we have our word back again. Ambivalence, which means simultaneous attraction toward, and repulsion from. This story is about ambivalence, and that's why it's been named Boomerang...