ordinary devotion

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Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne on the start of their relationship. They met when Tig was in her early 40s. 

Tig, 2015

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James Randi on his relationship of 25+ years. He and his partner met when Randi was in his late 50s.

An Honest Liar, 2014

I know now that a studied evasiveness has its own limitations, its own ways of inhibiting certain forms of happiness and pleasure. The pleasure of abiding. The pleasure of insistence, of persistence. The pleasure of obligation, the pleasure of dependency. The pleasures of ordinary devotion.

Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts