We sought one another before we had seen one another,
and, by the reports we heard of one another...
I think by some secret ordinance of the heavens
we embraced one another by our names.
And at our first meeting,
which was by chance a great feast
and solemn meeting of the whole township,
we found ourselves so surprised,
so...acquainted and so...bound together,
that from thence forward nothing was so near to us
as one unto the other.
I was so accustomed to be ever two,
and so inured to be never one,
that methinks I am but half myself.
Michel de Montaigne 1545-
born Feb 28th, 1533
at the Chateau de Montaigne in Perigord