In a sub-plot his friend Tree-man (who looks like a tree but acts like a lovesick French student) has an unreciprocated yearning for Ferdinand's ex.
Sad Caf is a ballad of unreciprocated loves, testimony to a voguish dramatic ailment known as incurable aloneness.
Stepparents do not, on average, feel the same child-specific love and commitment as genetic parents, and therefore do not reap the same emotional rewards from unreciprocated .