When Rafe and Julia started getting serious, they had a long talk sitting in his parked Mercedes down the block from her favorite diner.
"The thing of it is," said Rafe, "I do love you, but there's something you need to know, something about how I feel...."
"What is it," said Julia, not looking at him directly.
"There will always be a part of me, a part of how I feel about you that's not about you.
"Part of how I feel about you will always be really coming from how I feel about all women. Part of you just represents womanhood to me, Woman with a capital double-u."
"That doesn't bother me," said Julia.
"It should," said Rafe. "It means I can never be 100% faithful to you, because on some level I don't distinguish you from any other woman. You're all Woman to me. I love you all. This is horribly sexist of me."
"I don't see where it's going to be a problem," said Julia. "I thought you were going to tell me you were injured in the war and can no longer love."