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+Virtual attributes
+====================
+
+Mongoose supports virtual attributes. Virtual attributes are attributes
+that are convenient to have around but that do not get persisted to mongodb.
+
+An example is helpful.
+
+## Example
+Take the following schema:
+
+    var PersonSchema = new Schema({
+        name: {
+            first: String
+          , last: String
+        }
+    });
+
+    var Person = mongoose.model('Person', PersonSchema);
+
+    var theSituation = new Person({name: { first: 'Michael', last: 'Sorrentino' }});
+
+Suppose you want to write `theSituation`'s full name. You could do so via:
+
+    console.log(theSituation.name.first + ' ' + theSituation.name.last);
+
+It is more convenient to define a virtual attribute, `name.full`, so you can instead write:
+
+    console.log(theSituation.name.full); 
+
+To do so, you can declare a virtual attribute on the Schema, `Person`:
+
+    PersonSchema
+    .virtual('name.full')
+    .get(function () {
+      return this.name.first + ' ' + this.name.last;
+    });
+
+So when you get `name.full`, via
+
+    theSituation.name.full;
+
+the implementation ends up invoking the getter function
+
+    function () {
+      return this.name.first + ' ' + this.name.last;
+    }
+
+and returning it.
+
+It would also be nice to be able to set `this.name.first` and `this.name.last` by setting `this.name.full`. For example, it would be nice if we wanted to change theSituation's `name.first` and `name.last` to 'The' and 'Situation' respectively just by invoking:
+
+    theSituation.set('name.full', 'The Situation');
+
+Mongoose allows you to do this, too, via virtual attribute setters. You can define a virtual attribute setter thusly:
+
+    PersonSchema
+    .virtual('name.full')
+    .get(function () {
+      return this.name.first + ' ' + this.name.last;
+    })
+    .set(function (setFullNameTo) {
+      var split = setFullNameTo.split(' ')
+        , firstName = split[0]
+        , lastName = split[1];
+
+      this.set('name.first', firstName);
+      this.set('name.last', lastName);
+    });
+
+Then, when you invoke:
+
+    theSituation.set('name.full', 'The Situation');
+
+and you save the document, then `name.first` and `name.last` will be changed in monbodb, but the mongodb document will not have persisted a `name.full` key or value to the database:
+
+    theSituation.save(function (err) {
+      Person.findById(theSituation._id, function (err, found) {
+        console.log(found.name.first); // 'The'
+        console.log(found.name.last);  // 'Situation'
+      });
+    });
+
+If you want attributes that you can get and set but that are not themselves persisted to mongodb, virtual attributes is the Mongoose feature for you.