“I believe I learned with her to love a woman, and I can’t see where or how my heartsickness will end.”
Saul Bellow
more infosource: letter to Keith Botsford, dated November 5, 1959, in Saul Bellow: Letters (New York: Viking, 2010), 183.
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category: breakup, divorce, heartsick, love
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“I turned sixty-nine on June 10th, ’84. On that day Alexandra said she was divorcing me. She moved out of the apartment then and there. Not before she had applied circular stickers, big ones, green and white, to her possessions and mine. Even bathrobes and carpet slippers carried these gummed labels, a weird snowfall of large round green and white flakes.”
Saul Bellow
more infosource: letter to Hymen Slate, dated July 25, 1996, in Saul Bellow: Letters (New York: Viking, 2010), 521–22.
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category: color, divorce, possession, stuff
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“When there’s an Associated Press bulletin quoting your husband saying that he has found his soul mate but he’s going to try to fall back in love with you, change the locks. (At your second home, too.)”
Maureen Dowd
more infosource: “Rules of the Wronged,” The New York Times, June 30, 2009.
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category: adultery, breakup, divorce, governor, Governor Mark Sanford, Jenny Sanford, marriage, politics, soul mate
medium: Op-Ed
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