![]() ![]() It is hard to tell, however, to what extent their behavior is genuine. They seem to be rather content with their relationship at this yet fresh and romantic stage. The narrator states that “in addition to being in love,” they enjoy each other’s company and feel comfortable around each other. The narrator, Nick, and his wife Laura, a legal secretary, met in “a professional capacity”, but fell in love with each other, and it seems that their romance has developed quite fast (R. Mel and Terry are now have been together for five years, married for four, while the other couple has only been married for a year and a half (R. He claims that he loved her more than his life at some point, but he hates “her guts” now (R. However, Mel himself also has a very complicated relationship with his ex-wife. He disagrees with his wife, Terry, who states that her first husband, Ed, who abused her, sincerely loved her. ![]() He had studied in a seminary before entering medical school, and this experience seems to have shaped his perceptions to a large extent. ![]() ![]() The host, Mel McGinnis, a surgeon, seems to be a romantic at heart – he has very lofty ideas about love and believes that the only true love is a spiritual one. The story is dialogue-based, and, at some point, the conversation comes to the subject of love. The setting of the story is rather simple: there are four friends, two married couples in their thirties and forties who sit in the kitchen of one of them, drinking gin and talking. ![]()
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