The newlyweds’ perfection was painful to watch.
As the lovers spoke their vows, I watched a young woman in a cerise dress sitting in the congregation in front of me. She was lost in their story, her mouth agape, her eyes swimming with its romance. Then, oddly, her face fell from rapture to a sadness edging on tears.
Their vows effortlessly said the things songwriters bleed to say. They raised a kind of amorous fable wherein commuting princes and track-suited beauties are helplessly drawn to each other. Their psyches and dreams were strands of a helix, entangled, indivisible, until D do us P.It was an archetypal story, the kind that makes us aware we are not whole – that’s why the world hurts, we are not whole.
“Does my heart flutter when Harry’s key hits the lock at the end of the day? Can I taste my food when he’s not around? When Harry speaks, do I understand myself better? No? I am not Eurydice, then. Nor is Harry Orpheus. He won’t come to me in the underworld and beseech Hades for my release. He’s neither Mr Darcy nor Heathcliff. I’m neither Elizabeth nor Cathy.
The morning after the wedding, hungover, sad, and guilty, she told him it was over. It had to be over. What other course was there?
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