I brought the longing back home, so to speak, and for a while all of that stirred-up romantic energy was channeled to Kim, my wife. In fact, the next eight months or so were some of the best months of marriage I had ever experienced. I even thought quietly to myself that reconnecting with my old girlfriend had reconnected me to my marriage—strange and silly and delusional as that sounds, a variation of what the writer Joan Didion called “magical thinking.” But as time went on, Kim and I resumed our normal rhythms, the way we’d grown accustomed to living with one another. She, of course, knew
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