A view from the back of a man & a woman snuggled up together with the man’s arm embracing the woman & the woman’s head resting on the man’s shoulder & side of his neck. The man’s head is leaned into the top of the woman’s head. They are outdoors & the man is wearing a brown jacket.
Chalk up another one for Cupid. © Vytas Stoskus, 2023

Cupid’s Persistence: A Valentine Story

5 years would try the most patient matchmaker, but not Cupid

Vytas Stoskus
4 min readFeb 7, 2022

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Natalie, a young psychologist, comes back to Vilnius, Lithuania, having spent a year in India. Her job is gone; her old friends have moved on to other places, new lives. She can’t locate them, is jobless, & finds herself alone & lonely. Her parents are in another city. I live in Vilnius at the…

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Vytas Stoskus

Social psychologist, psychotherapist (Worldwide thru Skype), conflict mediator; organizational, creativity, & unschooling consultant; Heretic, outside agitator.