Andrew Clancey fell in love with Marianne in the early 1990s – then the pair didn’t see each other for 23 years
fell in love with Marianne in the early 1990s – then the pair didn’t see each other for 23 yearsmet Marianne in 1992 when I started working as a chef at a cafe in Melbourne. She was a waitress, and I thought: “What a bloody noisy Yank!” I’d been reading lots of John Pilger so I had a disdain for US geopolitics.
When she left Australia, I naively thought: “Oh, we’re in love with each other – she’ll be back in five minutes.”After she left, I drifted. I worked in the mines in Western Australia, thinking security and amassing a fortune was the key to capturing a woman’s heart. Marianne and I stayed in contact by writing letters. I rang her one day out of the blue in LA – but she was just about to get into a taxi to go deliver her first child.
There was joy and excitement at being back together, but a lot of grief too – of having missed all these possibilitiesWe kept in touch but our emails skirted around our feelings. In 2009 I got married a second time and had two more kids. That relationship ended in 2014. The next day I messaged her: “We need to talk, what’s your phone number?” The second I heard her voice again, the planets realigned.
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