A book of short stories focused on relationships, short and long, platonic and romantic. Stephen Jerome Kohn is a polymath consumer of life. He's been around the block and has synthesized his astute commentary into a series of pithy observations that will leave you laughing and crying. His primary focus in Hearts: Breaking/Mending is the beginning and ending of relationships. He knows that while they begin with the best of intentions (short or long-term), the endings are tragic for someone, almost always. Some stories are comical, others end with a vacuum that can only be filled with courage...