they should be thought of as long term companions.
IS music a momentary thrill or is it a long-term companion?
But it fell apart when his business partner and long-term companion, Christo Michaelides, died in an accident in 1999.
In these sober and self-effacing times, Townshend gardens, sails, walks his dogs, loves his long-term companion Rachel Fuller, plans a new musical suite called Floss, and compiles definitive box sets.
There are letters written by Alan Turing, the code-breaking hero prosecuted for "gross indecency" and chemically castrated; edits of EM Forster's homoerotic novel Maurice; and photographs of Nöel Coward and his long-term companion Graham Payn.
Saint Laurent, who in the words of one dealer needed art "like water to survive", amassed the collection over 40 years with Pierre Bergé, his long-term companion and business partner.
The actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died suddenly this month of a suspected drug overdose, left the bulk of his estate to his long-term companion, Marianne O'Donnell, according to a will filed in a New York court on Wednesday.
When he came over the Channel for the last time and visited south Wales in the 1890s, in his late 50s, it was to marry his long-term companion Eugénie Lescouzec.
The recipe was derived from the Alice B Toklas Cookbook, written by the long-term companion and muse of writer Gertrude Stein, and in all probability was served to the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Picasso and Thornton Wilder - all visitors to the couple's cultural salon.
However, Adam was never meant to be a long-term companion.
