David Foster Wallace one wrote, Every love story is a ghost story." I spent years reading and re-reading his works. And I've spent some time trying to figure out what he really meant by that. It's always felt hauntingly familiar to me. This is just conjecture and I don't want to sound incredulous, but tonight I was thinking about it as I drove home on a moonless and ominously quiet night (see what I did there) and... I thought, "I think what he simply meant by every love story is a ghost story, is that you never truly know if it's real." Maybe it was just something you thought you saw, you thought you felt, as sometimes there's no logical explanation to the feeling of love. Sometimes you just see ghosts. If you've ever had what you believed to be an unfailing love, fail, you may know what I'm intimating, and maybe what Wallace was suggesting. #dfw #davidfosterwallace #everylovestoryisaghoststory #jeffreiter