Come close, but not too close

No matter how intimate you are with someone, in the end you can get hold of only a corner of their life. The rest is out of reach, or in shadow, hidden by them on purpose for all sorts of reasons, or even right there in front of us. But we turn away from it because we don’t want to acknowledge or accept it as part of who they are. Sometimes the reason we never get to fully know someone loved is because we don’t want to know it all.

Come close, but not too close was originally published in Jona...