One day at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, we happened upon the coffin of the late Mrs. Thanchvil Tarnai and her husband, Larth Tetnies. They loved each other during the fourth century BCE in present-day Vulci, Italy, a town about equidistant between Florence and Rome. And their enormous sarcophagus is sealed by a lid featuring larger-than-life versions of themselves, seemingly naked, entwined in a sheet, holding each other, staring into each other’s eyes, the very picture of two people waking up in an embrace after a night of passion. The title of their museum card reads, “Together
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