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At the root of jealousy is a fear of abandonment, and we had no possibility of abandonment in that place.
Paradoxically, that thought of eternity took away some of my fear. To be trapped for a day, even one day, was brutal. A year was sickening. Any finite amount of time implied an eventual release, and my longing for release hurt me in the gut like chronic appendicitis. But eternity—that was on a different level of conception. It forced the mind to acquiesce entirely and accept the here, the now,
