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One boyfriend she broke up with said he knew things were going wrong between them the way you know your shoelace is untied before you look--a sort of loosening and slight shoe wobble that makes you check. 'I basically knew it was over when I started feeling that same kind of loose wobble between us, you know?' She was more hurt by his description of them that way than she was by the fact he no longer wanted to be together. But she also knew he was right. Shoes have no secrets and neither do shoelaces, tied or otherwise. No passionate other woman was lurking in their shadows ready to leap out and scream Ah Ha! No operatic cri de coeurs that led to wrenching cathartic emotional scenes where the truth finally flooded out because too many dark secrets and words had been left unsaid until that moment. No, to him their relationship was an untied shoe and by extension, she was a shoelace.
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Death watches. So if you have some happiness, conceal it. And when your heart is full, keep your mouth shut also.

Saul Bellow, HERZOG
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Treat it like it is yours and one day it will be.

Fernand Point
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listen to the whole thing:
http://my.break.com/Content/view.aspx?ContentID=527579
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a nice one from FH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWl66WdOK5o