Author Description

After Yocheved passed, Gil, her husband, discovers poems and letters addressed to men she hoped to marry before they met. He never got such passionate words. Despite his hurt, their beauty drives him to give voice to her authentic self, femininity, and sensual splendor, contrasting with her image of a person with a disability. It also honors her unfulfilled purpose to write an open letter and be a writer.The opus has two books 'Yocheved's book: The book of Decency. Her/story' and 'Gil's book: The Rapture of loving you. His/tory'In her book 'Her/story', Yocheved shows that everything is possible for a woman with mobility challenges, the importance of her Jamaican Jewish roots, her attachment to Jerusalem and, above all, the fierce determination to protect 'her girls,' Ruth and Naomi. Though she loved Gil, her letter brings up documents written when she thought about leaving him and the poem she composed for him but did not send. Her legacy letter reads like a conversation with him.Reading her letter, Gil feels that it gives the impression that their love was about repairing his broken soul. He decides to dig into his heart and mind to find an answer. Was she the woman who is the friend of his mind.'? He describes three insights he learned from dealing with his doubts, caregiving, and grief. Love motivated his determination to change; a woman who is 'the friend of your mind' does not mean entropy of passion.Caregiving attending to Yocheved's dying body might be Ars Erotica, even if his fixer attitude buried his emotions. It was his Song of Song.Grief grants him to love her when she lives within him. He knows she is outside, alone, and she is not coming. In his meditation on grief, love in absence challenges the relation between love, pleasure, and desire.