But it also illustrates how bonds of love can endure and overcome.
Those bonds between the players have endured through the years.
"Across the wall of stones, no bond endures."
Our bond has endured the tumult of raising five children, professional hills and valleys and our own serious health problems.
The bond forged by knowing someone early in life should endure.
Our bond endures with less of the drama, the static, of the other.
Even after partition their bond of friendship endured.
Sometimes the bonds that grow between musicians and listeners endure beyond the next train.
Each one's bond to that home run also has endured because, unlike their teams, they remained in the New York area.
"The bonds which connect our countries will endure until the end of time," he said.