ELISA DANE, HAUPPAUGE, L.I. – He waited on line with me — and the other sweatly women who were screaming in his ears — for eight hours to see Ricky Martin.

VALARIE DOUZ, QUEENS – He bought me a snow-cone machine because I told him that I had wanted one ever since I was a child.

MICHAEL O’HAGAN, QUEENS – We went shopping in this unbearable heat for skimpy clothes – and he didn’t mind.