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Addicted to Love; Fault Line by Laurie Alberts

If dating shows and self-help books have it right, romantic love is all about finding a soul mate -- the one person out there who "completes" you; who heals your childhood wounds and invites you into the perfect symbiosis of two. The only problem is that, as Tristan and Isolde and Sid and Nancy discovered, soul mates can tear each other's lives apart.

In her memoir Fault Line, part of the University of Nebraska's American Lives series, Vermont College professor Laurie Alberts tells the story of her 16-year relationship with a man whose name she still invokes as "my mantra, my shield against humiliation and fear." A lover, a surrogate parent, an intellectual partner, Kim Janik was also the ...

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