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"Until that time, I had not recognized just how much I'd been having to meet someone I may be in a position to declare anything to."They met at a party.  It was loathe at first sight.  Ruth was far too gorgeous, too flamboyant.  Not at all Ann's kind of person.  Until an opportunity encounter in the toilet resulted in an alliance of souls.  Soon they were discussing hankies throughout the late showing of "Sophie's Choice," wolfing down sundaes sodden with whipped cream, informing facts of marriage, death, and love, safe in a kind of closeness no guy can actually know.  Only close friends comprehend devil's food cake for breakfast when Nothing else may do.  After decades of guilty pleasures, shared strategies, family life and divorce, they encounter an emergency that redefines this is of companionship and unconditional love.From the Paperback version.