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Martin offered that he would help and brief them on the relevant details, especially on the dangers that someone familiar with the Bohr/Miller effect would pose to humanity if he were to live on Earth again.
Our reunion unfolded as expected. There were tears in both of our eyes amidst embraces that lasted longer than it took for the tears to dry. The gentleness between us was the same as it had always been. There was no distance that I could sense, in respect to our feelings for each other. The children hadn't come for this first-contact reunion. "But I can't come to your New World either," Wendy said the next day at dinner through a shower of tears. "It is not your New World that I am afraid of. I just can't cope with the prospect of sharing your love with three other wives. I just can't, so I won't.... Please forgive me!"
"What wives?" I said. "The concept of wife or wives is unthinkable on Bohr's planet," I said. Immediately I remembered Martin's warning. I wanted to add that we regard each other as human beings, with human needs, and respect each other in a way that these needs are being met in the most gentle and honest manner. But I couldn't say it, because I had said already too much. And then there was the matter of Martin and Werner living with us, whom we had invited, who loved the idea as fondly as everyone else did. I tried to explain, but how could I?
"No wives!" she repeated. "You must be running a commune then?"
"A commune? No!" I said. "In a commune an individual has few rights, if any, while on Bohr's planet the very concept of rights is invalid. Nobody talks about rights, but about life and living. Rights are related to poverty-bound situations and privatized love. The concept becomes invalid when one steps outside the sphere of this poverty and its related looting and dominating."
I stopped. Oh my God! How could she have possibly understood a single word of what I had said?
"You mean, I wouldn't even have the right to protect myself?" she asked.
Oh how could I ever explain to her, that on Bohr's planet, no one assumes any right over any other person? The thought is unthinkable. No one ever would. The concept of protecting is invalid, because it is redundant when there is no 'distance' between people that causes conflicts and harm. I explained it as best as I could. There was no way she could grasp what I meant. I could see that she was making every effort to come to terms with what I was trying to tell her. It was to no avail. A person simply can't deal with what the 'rational' mind won't accept, or can't. She seemed to live in black hole in that respect.
We came to an arrangement that day. I proposed that instead of her coming to Bohr's planet, I would visit her twice a month. We would meet in Hawaii or at any other place on the globe that she would care to choose.
Her face lit up. She gladly agreed to that. I must admit, I was glad too. I could see no other option. Also, this project had all the potential of becoming a long drawn out sequence of very special meetings and adventures that we might otherwise might never have had. Maybe the black hole wasn't fully established yet and had not yet closed itself around her. Some light was still coming through.
"I'm becoming the talk of the town," she told me one day in Bangkok. "My friends back home are turning green with envy over that secret lover they insist I must have; and a rich diamond dealer at that, they say!"
At another visit, in Cairo, she told me with the biggest smile she had ever produced that she was the happiest person alive and didn't care one bit that I lived quintillions of miles away in another galaxy with four other ladies, a son, and a baby on its way.
When visiting Madrid, she embraced me with a kiss. "Do you realize that there isn't another woman on the entire Earth who can boast of having greater riches than I have, being with you?"
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