Hemingway wrote somewhere that when two people are deeply in love, it is Inevitable that their story will end in tragedy, since one will quite likely out-live the other. I’ve been thinking about this recently because in the last few years I’ve read a handful of books by widows who were in deeply reciprocated love relationships and who write about those relationships in retrospect with great affection and a deep sense of loss. These books include Joan Didion’s
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