warmly to a man who seemed to use rather than accept her. She desperately wanted to be close to Michael, but felt a sense of dread at the prospect of moving toward a man who perhaps didn’t really love her. Luis and Carmen, the couple whose marriage was a well-decorated but empty package, felt completely blocked from touching one another emotionally. The absence of real intimacy left a void for them — which she freely and bitterly acknowledged, but which he ignored by focusing on the external trappings