December 4, 2006:
Such grand theories, based on the experience of that relationship.
The soul, communion, reincarnation: why is it that you feel so strongly connected to a particular individual, even across years of separation?
Later after brief reunion it became clear that all along it was nothing more than "Stockholm Syndrome": the bonding of an abused with their abuser.
How many other certainties in this life have been equally false?