He recalls coming back one time, "and looking into my ex's face and seeing such fatigue, such separateness.
"People are very determined to maintain the identity of their parties and to maintain their separateness," Rae says, "and the intensity to do that seems to grow as the ideological differences between the parties becomes less and less significant".
There's an air of separateness about him, something noticeably aloof and withdrawn.
These days, even Jews who have never been to a synagogue are happy to assert that separateness: they are rossiiskiye, Russian citizens, but not russkiye, "Russians".
It saw the event as confirmation that Taiwan's democratisation was strengthening international support for Taiwan's separateness.
But the separateness of mitochondrial genes means that by moving the nucleus from an afflicted egg into a healthy one, the mutated, disease-causing genes can be left behind.
According to the latest MORI polling on attitudes to race, commissioned by the CRE, 80% of black people report that they mix often with different ethnic groups.By contrast, Asians, especially Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, opted more for separateness.
But it can be ameliorated and it has an upside.The disorder in Bradford a decade ago was blamed by some on multiculturalism, a concept that, among its detractors, has come to connote tolerating or even encouraging separateness (see article).
Mr Chen had tried in vain to rally support for the DPP by playing up Taiwan's separateness from China.
Ms Tsai, despite having served as the government's top official responsible for China relations during Mr Chen's presidency, has largely avoided pushing her party's traditional line about the island's separateness from China.
And their talk is poetry.Mr Fry was a beautiful, vivid writer, unable to resist words ever since, as a child, he had suddenly become aware of their separateness and weight, "like coloured stones in my hand".
