“Can someone be in love with more than one person? At the same time?” That was the question that Gwendolyn MacClean asked of her former professor, mentor, divorcee, and near-lover, Nochriel Weir. She had a choice to make; he’d made his, and it was she, the woman he called Sol, after a line from a Rumi poem, “Springtime of Lovers.” She chose the other man. Noch (as he was called) remarried. They stayed the closest of friends. Essential. But when it seems fate will part them permanently, will a final request tear them more than apart, even as it answers that essential question