Someone Great

Dr. George Kamen - noted psychiatrist who invented group therapy. Bulgarian born, moved to the United States in 1980 to avoid persecution. I don't see it being about him. I think this is clearly about a past love.

"I wish that we could talk about it, But there, that's the problem. With someone new I couldn't start it, Too late, for beginnings."

• Their relationship has communication issues. He doesn't want to leave her, it's "too late for beginnings" and wants to just work it out with her. He knows they have had their differences, so he has seen it coming when she does call him early in the morning to break up with him. I think he is expressing how ok he is with the ending when he makes the comments about the weather and the coffee "because what's the difference". He knows they have been on life support for quite some time and isn't shocked or too upset, it's an amicable breakup. Now he has to get on with his life "There's all the work that needs to be done". This is the love of his life but sometimes love isn't enough. He just had this huge earthquake in his private life but life "keeps coming til the day it stops" and he must carry on. He later meets another girl and gets married and has told his wife of his previous love and talked her up quite a bit and that is why the wife sees her as someone more than human. Simple a myth to her. The "ring of silence" is the awkwardness when he introduces his wife to the love of his life. What do you say in that situation?