“I really like how we use the same word to describe the swirling quasar of emotion we feel for our wives as we do to describe the way we feel about good pastrami. It’s a present reminder of how feeble language can be when trying to express what it feels like to love and yet how amazing it is that the three most treacly and bankrupt words in the language can, when said by the right person, explode a heart into a star.”
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A Dude, The Hairpin
Ask A Dude is usually great, but more consistently excellent is A Lady, who commenters often suspect is Edith Zimmerman, but who I privately hope is Mary H.K. Choi.
