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What is it with these academic types? By now I’m sure you’re familiar with our friend, Dr. Smith — divorced, hard-up, and struggling to make a relationship happen. Allow me to introduce you to another academic divorcee, Dr. Jeremy Wrigley. Jeremy has been a friend of mine for over a decade. I knew his wife and his kids, but when I got divorced we drifted apart. Some people, particularly couples, and even more particularly insecure couples, prefer to keep away from relationships on the rocks rather than stick around. He was of that ilk. He knew things weren’t going well in his own marriage and so he was almost allergic to my situation.
But his precautions couldn’t prevent the inevitable. His wife ran off with the plumber. This was particularly painful to Dr. Wrigley because, of all my intellectual friends, he was by far the most cerebral. And that is saying a lot!!! Dr. Wrigley, bespectacled, mild-mannered, and shy is the leading researcher in the philosophy of science, focusing particularly on A.I. and the interface of humans and robots. As you can imagine, this field that he entered twenty years ago, has taken off, as has his career. Thus, for his wife — a beautiful sandy haired blonde whom he had met at a bar while in grad school and who was content to be a stay-at-home mom — to leave him for the plumber was a kick in…