And yet amid all this astounding wonder life can hurt so very much. While virtual particles seethe invisibly around you and galaxies wheel through the eons, you stand at a window and await a return that never occurs. You stand there thinking, This can't be happening; she has to come back. But in the end she never does, and it leaves a hole in your life that takes years to scab over. Even years later you think back to that moment by the window and wonder, How could she have done that to me? Even now, sometimes, it doesn't seem possible that love could be so easily broken. Love is the most powerful force in the universe, she used to say; yet its sudden absence can make you feel as if you are crumbling away, leaf by leaf.

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