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Opening this morning's Crimson, I was surprised that Lorraine Lezama found my love life so interesting that she felt the need to misrepresent and ridicule it in print. Ms. Lezama has never met me, but she nonetheless feels qualified to lecture not simply about long-distance relationships in general, but about mine in particular, which I found inappropriate and just plain tacky. If she had bothered to ask me, she would have learned that I agree that "mad passion" deals poorly with issues of everyday life, which is why the famous lovers she mentions--such as Romeo and Juliet...
...love grounded in friendship and honesty, not romantic images and idealizations, survives and grows through these disputes. Mike and I have been together for six years not because we harbor any illusions about each other (including Lezama's: my mother first called him "wonky-looking," not "Byronic," when I showed her a picture in tenth grade, and I myself have too much meat on my bones to look "poetically consumptive") but because we know and respect one another as we truly...
Lorraine A. Lezama's column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Lorraine A. Lezama's column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Lorraine A. Lezama's column appears on alternate Tuesdays...