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A Pathologically Restless Man

The Wall Street Journal

November 22, 2025

True Nature

- By Lance Richardson

IN A LETTER to Peter Matthiessen in 1970, one of many damningly perceptive missives that he received from the women in his life, his second wife, Deborah Love, wrote, "you seem a man in 1000 pieces, running after each one.

This story is from the November 22, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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