Love comes ... and goes ... for the lovelorn

From my rip and report file, another (here's the first) blurb from the September 2005 Atlantic Monthly.

Seems John Hinckley, the guy who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has an upcoming hearing (September 19) to determine if he may now venture "beyond Washington, D.C., for the first time since he entered a mental hospital after the shooting...

"He would now like to visit [his parents'] home in Virginia. The judge in the case is concerned that because Hinckley - who shot Reagan in the throes of a romantic obsession with the actress Jodie Foster - recently ended his relationship with a fellow mental patient (who killed her ten-year-old daughter but was found not guilty by reason of insanity), this may not be the best time for him to be out and about."

Seems love is, truly, a many splendored thing when it comes to the insane.