I believe firmly that a great loss, by death or misunderstanding of a genuinely intimate connection, can drop the trapdoor right out from under one. It can also happen when one loses something long familiar. But the deaths of true-lovers-by-heartbreak is, I think only slightly exagerrated for romantic effect. The steep emotional shock just takes 'em right down, like being tackled by a linebacker, as it were.

One man's opinion.

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