Reading Dear John. Again.

""Our relationship, I felt with a heaviness in my chest, was beginning to feel like the spinning movement of a child's top.  When we were together, we had the power to keep it spinning, and the result was beauty and magic and an almost childlike sense of wonder; when we seperated, the spinning began inevitably to slow.  We became wobbly and unstable, and I knew I had to find a way to keep us from toppling o v e r."