Chapter 16

Opposites

Sometimes we root for two people to be together because they are opposites. Which means that between them they have everything they need. The Yin and Yang. Two halves make a whole.

In old movies, particularly Westerns, it looked like this: The Big Man and the Little Woman. The Big Man was usually played by someone like John Wayne, or Clark Gable. Joel McCrea. Even Henry Fonda and James Stewart and Gregory Peck played a few of these in their day. The Little Woman would be played by a tough little woman like Jean Arthur, or Donna Reed or Barbara Stanwyck.

The Big Man would clear the land, fight off bears and banditos, plow the field, build the cabin and the furniture, harvest the crops, and protect and provide for the family. ...

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