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A lovely read on a rainy afternoon.
posted by jenni on August 9th, 2013 at 2:37PM

http://www.openculture.co...parted-wife.html

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posted by dennisn on August 9th, 2013 at 5:31PM

Hmmm. Perhaps, then, he was only in love with the idea of her.

EDIT: /his/ idea of her.

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posted by jenni on August 9th, 2013 at 10:35PM

She died young, all he had left was his idea, I suppose.

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posted by dennisn on August 10th, 2013 at 6:37AM

The problem is, if simply his idea of her was enough to satisfy him (it was better than anyone else alive, in his words), there is a high probability that it was never really her that he was in love with -- rather, always the idea.

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