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"Hey, Brad Pitt" by Steve Nelson

HEY, BRAD, I WAS READING ABOUT YOUR DIVORCE FROM ANGELINA again and I can hardly believe that it’s finally done. Even though your official dissolution has taken eight years, I still had hopes that you two might get back together, because when you were together it felt like destiny, like your coupling had a Darwinian inevitability to it. As the sexiest man and sexiest woman alive, of course you couldn’t resist each other, since isn’t that the point of natural selection, that we can’t help ourselves from trying to land the best partner available? And with you and Angelina, isn’t that what happened?  Your divorce sounded messy and I know how those things can go, but ah … I really thought your place was with Angelina, and that it went beyond lust or love or wants and needs. To me, your relationship was evolution, as natural as gravity, as inevitable as water running downstream. Sure, it took you a while to find each other. Both of you were even married to other people, but you hadn’t...