On the day of their meeting, Lennon visited Onos conceptual art show in a gallery in London.
The gallery owner introduced the Beatle and the artist, and the rest is history.
It was very beautiful.

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I didnt particularly realize that part of it, really.
She didnt split the Beatles.
Because how could one girl split the Beatles, or one woman?

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The Beatles were drifting apart on their own.
There is no reason on Earth why I should be without her.
There is nothing more important than our relationship, nothing.

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We dig being together all the time, and both of us could survive apart, but what for?
Neither of us want to be, and it’s possible for you to’t fill the bed with groupies.
I don’t want to be a swinger.

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I don’t think she will get recognition until she’s dead.
She has the hope that she might be recognized.
But if they didn’t want the two of us, we weren’t interested.

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Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms .
but any truth is universal.
What dawned on me was everything I was taking for granted.

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Women really are the other half of the sky, as I whisper at the beginning of the song.
It’s a we or it ain’t anything.
Woman is the grown-up version of Girl.

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The photograph on the cover, captured by Annie Leibovitz, was taken just hours before he was killed.
Were together, still.
We were saying global village, its going to be a global village in the 60s!


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