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We imagined we knew everything the other would thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

You sit down for dinner and life as you know it ends

At points during the quiet day I found myself thinking that possibly I had come through into a new season.
In January I had watched ice floes form on the East River From a window at Beth Israel North. In February I had watched ice floes break up on the Hudson from a window at Columbia-Presbyterian. Now in March the ice was gone:
and I had done what I had to do for John

In his book Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us "confuse cathecting with loving." We all know how often individuals feeling connected to someone through the process of cathecting insist that they love the other (5)