"More and more millennials are thinking this way, and the idea of exchanging love more freely is becoming a bigger conversation".
Though Cashman would not acknowledge subscribing to the conventional wisdom of exchanging paternal love for tough love, replacing St. Torre with a younger, edgier Joe, it took only a few probing questions from the Stadium regulars for Girardi to bare the feistiness that helped him through 15 seasons on modest major league skills.
Following the intimate lives of three married couples from different religious and ethnic backgrounds in India for many years, Flock writes of exchanged love letters, sexual embarrassments, financial strains, family fights, and gradual distancings.
Ms. Stuart's newer pieces incorporate grids of photographs: "Ring of Fire" (2008-10) has images of people, ships, plant life and constellations, taken throughout the seismically active South Pacific Basin, as well as of mementos, including of love letters exchanged by her parents after she was conceived in Australia.
Luckily for Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker, their walk of love led to exchanging vows last April during a lavish wedding ceremony in Atlanta.
"At the moment, the house is seedy, because those little bits of love getting exchanged hourly are not here," he said.
In February, Prentiss and Benjamin co-starred in "Dearest Friend," consisting of love letters exchanged between President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills.
From polyglot editions, begun by Heinsius's verses in Dutch and Latin and later in French, publication of emblem books became an international enterprise, and books of love emblems were exchanged by lovers and formed pretty little encyclopaedias of those "questions of love" that had been the erudite pastime of the academies throughout the Renaissance.
To think of the terror and unexpected love of that wordless exchange still breaks my heart.
But as they joined voices in a show that takes its title from a song by the Indigo Girls, they made vows of love and friendship exchanged by men seem "as normal as blueberry pie," to quote another Hammerstein lyric.
