![]() ![]() ![]() A blood clot, filled with bacteria from the kidney infection, traveled to Paul’s brain, cutting off blood flow from one of his major arteries: The pair went to bed confident that they would be leaving the hospital the next morning to continue Paul’s recovery at home. Paul was receiving treatment for an infection, the most recent in a series of maladies over a 20 year period that had put Paul in and out of the hospital. In 2006, writers Diane Ackerman and Paul West were at the hospital, again. Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love If they’re wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.” ![]() Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children especially if we’re creative. All couples play kissy games they don’t want other people to know about, and all regress to infants from time to time, since, though we marry as adults, we don’t marry adults. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos - a cult of two with fallible gods. “ Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hand together by touching in just enough points. ![]()
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