What we talk about when we talk about love by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver (Clatskanie, Oregón, 25 de mayo de 1938-Port Angeles, Washington, 2 de agosto de 1988) My friend McGinnis was talking. Mel McGinnis is a cardiologist, and sometimes that gives him the right. The four of us were sitting around his kitchen table drinking gin. Sunlight filled the kitchen from the big window behind the sink. There were Mel and me and his second wife, Teresa — Terri, we called her — and my wife, Laura. We lived in Albuquerque then. But we were all from somewhere else. There was an ice bucket on the table. The gin and the tonic water kept going around, and we somehow got on the subject of love. Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years in his life. Terri said the man she lived with before she lived with Mel loved her so much he tried to kill her...