“A Young Couple Spending An Evening In Las Vegas; Photographer:Grey Villet” (picture via Life archives).
“And it seemed to them that in only a few more minutes a solution would be found and a new, beautiful life would begin; but both of them knew very well that the end was still a long, long way away and that the most complicated and difficult part was only just beginning.”
- Anton Checkhov’s short story, The Lady with a Dog.
Those last few lines can make a sympathetic person like me develop knots in their stomach.
