Homosexuality and Bisexuality

Blinking With LoveGrowing up in the ’50s, I never saw my parents kiss, hug or say “I love you.” Instead, their marriage, like my childhood, was steeped in sarcasm and silence. After my father’s winter death, my mother asked for a copy of their answering machine messages — still blinking from when he was alive.…

To mark the winter holidays — an especially popular time to break up — we asked people around the world for their most striking parting words to each other.