 or today on our show. We have other stories of people who are so close, but so far. Back one is about two people in one of the closest relationships possible. They're engaged to be married, but they have this distance between them that they cannot make sense of. Back two, comedian Tig Notaro has a story of somebody as close as her actual bedside, and also, in another way, impossibly far away. I'm WBEC Chicago. This is American Life. I'm Ira Glass. Stay with us.