[lost and found] tale of two couples

Lost

British actor and comedian John Cleese has split from his third wife after 19 years together. An unnamed friend of the couple reportedly revealed that they had decided that their relationship was over but no one else was involved.

His American-born wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger Cleese, is a psychotherapist and renowned for her work with children. Their decision to separate came after the actor became "melancholy" in recent months after the deaths of several close friends, the newspaper said.

Found

When Anna Kozlov saw the elderly man clambering out of a car in her home village of Borovlyanka in Siberia, she stopped dead in her tracks, convinced that her eyes were playing tricks. There, in front of her, was Boris, the man she had fallen in love with and married 60 years earlier.

The last time she had seen him was three days after their wedding, when she kissed him goodbye and sent him off to rejoin his Red Army unit. By the time he returned, Anna was gone, consigned by Stalin's purges to internal exile in Siberia with the rest of her family as an enemy of the people.

They left no forwarding address. Frantic, Boris tried everything he could to find his young bride, but it was no good — she was gone.

Anna's mother resolved that the girl should remarry. She told her that Boris had remarried. "She said he had forgotten about me — that's why no letters came.

But one day I got back home from work at a timber plant and my mum had burned all his earlier letters, poems and pictures, including our wedding photographs."

Life's too short for this sort of human waste.