Beautiful breakups [art] - by Brie Wolfson - Brie's Wax

I’ve always admired people who take as much care in ending relationships as starting them. These are my favorite public examples of those kinds of breakups. Let this also be a formal recommendation to read Just Kids by Patti Smith. As far as I am concerned, this is the greatest love story ever told. Patti told Robert when he was on his deathbed that she would write this book (Robert died from complications related to HIV/AIDs at 42 and Patti wrote Just Kids while also mourning her husband’s, Fred Smith’s, death). Patti and Robert met at a bookshop in New York and quickly fell in love, occupying the smallest (and cheapest) room at The Chelsea Hotel. Through the course of their romance, Robert was coming to terms with his homosexuality. In Patti’s words in the book, “we were evolving with different needs. I needed to explore beyond myself and Robert needed to search within himself.” Even as their physical relationship ended (Robert even moved away from New York), they pair remained in lo

I’ve always admired people who take as much care in ending relationships as starting them. These are my favorite public examples of those kinds of breakups. Let this also be a formal recommendation to read Just Kids by Patti Smith. As far as I am concerned, this is the greatest love story ever told. Patti told Robert when he was on his deathbed that she would write this book (Robert died from complications related to HIV/AIDs at 42 and Patti wrote Just Kids while also mourning her husband’s, Fred Smith’s, death). Patti and Robert met at a bookshop in New York and quickly fell in love, occupyin