23
Sep
“I knew her when I was young. I’d seen her around.”
So did he fall for her right away?
He smiles. “Well, it took some time before we got together, but you know what they say: ‘You can finish early or you can finish late’. I guess we got started late.”
Long since divorced from Simon, Taylor does not seem to have many happy memories of this heady period of fame and love.
“Our marriage was not part of some rock fairy tale…
The media has made too much of my marriage to Carly, and that wasn’t good for us then or now. It distorts things. Just because Carly and I were a very public commodity, that doesn’t mean our relationship was more meaningful than the one I have now.”
(Source: http://www.james-taylor.com/text/telegraph7-99.shtml)
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Perhaps if you bet too much for them, if the two seem so perfectly ideal when looking at their commonality or inevitability, to the point that it’s almost too good to be true, then perhaps that’s exactly what it is.
