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Long, long ago, in stern patriarchal times, when women went about in long skirts, people rode to their business on horseback or in carriages and all food was organic because you had to grow it yourself, life was harder. There were no single-mother benefits, no maternity payments, no pension savings, no decent medicine and none of the many other pleasant features of modern life. People had to survive, and together that was far easier than apart. To provide at least some sort of social guarantee,

It was love at first sight. They only had to see each other and the world took on entirely different shades, gained colour and meaning... And it all happened in a canteen.

You do not become an introvert, you are born one. In short, that is roughly half of humanity. These are people who know everything about themselves and who come to know the world around them through that knowledge. An introvert standing in front of a mirror is not looking at himself. He or she is rather studying the mirror — checking how accurately it reflects the Introvert.

I do not know whether he really was that famous, but to her he was a star, the sun without which everything alive on earth would die. And to him she was the earth that the sunlight warms — otherwise, what would be the point of shining? And it was also a misalliance.