I've been thinking lately about loneliness. I've been single since February of '08, and before that relatively short relationship I'd been single basically since high school. I'm used to being single. I do pretty well alone. I have some of the best friends a girl CAN have, but most of them are in wonderful, committed, long-term relationships, and that can wear you down if you think about it too much. It doesn't help that I got an e-mail yesterday from a dating site I signed up with a few months ago, and 2 of the 6 suggested matches were gay men looking for "marriages of convenience" with lesbian women. Gotta admit, that was a little depressing.
Then I made things worse by deciding to watch my current Netflix movie this afternoon, which happened to be
The Young Victoria. And then, misty-eyed and sniffling from that, I clicked on a link and stumbled across this video, an animation of two StoryCorps interviews with the same couple, Danny and Annie, about the beginning and ending of their life-long love. If it doesn't make you laugh and cry, then you probably don't have a heart.
The sweetness and sadness of it reminded me of how much I'm missing out on, being single. But it also reminded me of how much, hopefully, I have to look forward to.
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