Huffington told the graduates about falling in love with a man through his writing — Bernard Levin of the London Times. They were together for seven years, but when she turned 30 and wanted children, he wanted cats. She did something terrifying: she left the man she deeply loved. And everything that followed — her children, her books, The Huffington Post, this very speech — happened because a man wouldn't marry her. 'Remember that, okay?' she said.