Gaye Haunani Rathburn

b. July 1, 1953, Kahuku, Hawaii

The spirited maiden with eyes like lotus petals and a flawless body, lovely and delicate, is the daughter of the great-spirited Yajñasena Drupada .... Draupadî of the flawless limbs and slender waist, whose blue lotus fragrance wafts as far as a league, Yajñasena's daughter, is holding her bridegroom choice.

The Mahâbhârata, Vol. I, The Book of the Beginning
[University of Chicago Press, 1973], p. 347]

Many divorced people would just as soon forget their ex-spouses. Others remember them only with rancor, even hatred. Certainly paths part and lovers are estranged, but I cannot deny the happiness of the past or act like it didn't happen. These sentiments, however, are ordinarily hidden, like this file, and like the past into which this all has vanished. When they are forgotten, so will be the life itself, of which they were so significant a part.
 

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