Mel and Terry are now have been together for five years, married for four, while the other couple has only been married for a year and a half (R. He claims that he loved her more than his life at some point, but he hates “her guts” now (R. However, Mel himself also has a very complicated relationship with his ex-wife. He disagrees with his wife, Terry, who states that her first husband, Ed, who abused her, sincerely loved her. He had studied in a seminary before entering medical school, and this experience seems to have shaped his perceptions to a large extent.
The host, Mel McGinnis, a surgeon, seems to be a romantic at heart – he has very lofty ideas about love and believes that the only true love is a spiritual one. The story is dialogue-based, and, at some point, the conversation comes to the subject of love.
The setting of the story is rather simple: there are four friends, two married couples in their thirties and forties who sit in the kitchen of one of them, drinking gin and talking.
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