Many wives of fighter pilots would end up looking on helplessly as their husbands grew more and more distant, a fact they would acknowledge in what were meant as lighthearted remarks, such as: “I’m only his mistress – he’s married to an airplane.” Often she would be overstating their intimacy; the actual mistress would be someone she didn’t know about.
-Tom Wolfe
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