昨晚，亞馬遜老大 Jeff Bezos 在推特上宣佈與妻子 MacKenzie 離婚，並表示兩人依然是珍貴的朋友：
是啊，走過 25 年的風風雨雨，無法做夫妻，至少還可以做朋友。Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends. 白頭偕老有白頭偕老的幸福，分手可能也是另一種幸福。
還沒感動完，就讀到了一條勁爆消息。《國家詢問報》（The National Enquirer）刊出了獨家新聞，聲稱貝佐斯是因為有外遇才離婚，不僅和情人到處浪，發不可描述的短信，還是朋友妻不客氣......
https://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/jeff-bezos-divorce-lauren-sanchez-cheating-affair-photos-exclusive/
Our reporters snapped the braggadocios billionaire and his raven-haired lover, 49, doing the dirty on their spouses together no fewer than six times in 14 days.
On one occasion they even enjoyed a secret tryst at the very Boston, Mass., hotel the Bezos family stayed at when in town for Parents Day at his son’s MIT campus!
It is the real reason why Bezos, one of the world’s most powerful men, took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce his shock divorce.
這家報紙是份“tabloid”，專揭明星隱私的八卦小報，比卓偉還卓偉，經常被告上法庭。為博眼球它什麼事都做的出來，真不知道出軌離婚是真是假。
婚內出軌，戀上有夫之婦，媒體聲稱有實錘。如果這一切都是真的，貝佐斯的“人設”可就崩了...... 心疼和她一起白手起家的原配妻子。
貝佐斯的妻子是 MacKenzie Tuttle，1992 年從普林斯頓畢業，是 Bezos 的校友。她學的是英語，師從諾貝爾文學獎獲得者 Toni Morrison，被老師稱為“one of the best students I’ve ever had in my creative-writing classes”。
MacKenzie 從普林斯頓大學畢業後，在投資管理公司 D.E.Shaw 擔任研究助理。貝佐斯當時是該公司的副總裁之一，是第一個面試她的人。雖然貝佐斯對她有好感，不過兩人感情的開始還是女方更主動一些——"getting him to notice her romantically was all her doing"。
MacKenzie later said it was she who targeted Bezos, not the other way around. “My office was next door to his, and all day long I listened to that fabulous laugh,” she told Vogue in 2012. “How could you not fall in love with that laugh?” She began her campaign to win him over by suggesting lunch. The couple got engaged three months after they started dating; they were married three months after that.
節選於 The Everything Store
2013 年 Vogue 雜誌寫過一篇 Mackenzie 的專訪，她說她和貝佐斯性格很互補。貝佐斯非常外向，喜歡社交，而她正好相反。她對穿衣打扮也不講究（she’s more the jeans-and-T-shirt type），好多衣服都是貝佐斯給她買的。
性格內向的她該出手時就出手，把家庭照顧好，追求自己熱愛的文學，也處處支持和維護貝佐斯。當年貝佐斯說要創業，她雖然不知道要搞什麼，但她看老公很興奮，就一起辭了工作陪他闖蕩。她會在亞馬遜上為貝佐斯的傳記打一星，評論字裡行間中足見她的敢愛敢恨。
他們的一個共同朋友評價貝佐斯說：
Family is very important to Jeff, <strong>and he absolutely relies on her to create that stable home life.They are such a normal, close-knit family, it’s almost abnormal.
在外人看來嫁給了後來的首富真是太幸運了。有個有錢老公是種什麼樣的體驗？人家是這麼說的：
I am definitely a lottery winner of a certain kind,” she says, referring to her husband’s success, “and it makes my life wonderful in many ways, but that’s not the lottery I feel defined by. <strong>The fact that I got wonderful parents who believed in education and never doubted I could be a writer, the fact that I have a spouse I love, those are the things that define me.
https://www.vogue.com/article/a-novel-perspective-mackenzie-bezos
從這段中可以看得出她的獨立自強。是啊，我嫁得好，有錢也確實好，不過這並不代表什麼。雖然離婚後，她可能獲得高達 690 億美元，不過我想這也不太會影響她的生活。最重要的是有相信自己的人，愛自己的人。
如果貝佐斯真的出軌，Mackenzie 一定難過死了。貝佐斯那份離婚聲明也變得虛偽可恨。
貝佐斯在普林斯頓演講時說：
When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
是啊，每一步都是自己的選擇。時間會證明一切。
貝佐斯說從小爺爺就告訴過他“善良比聰明更重要”—— Cleverness is a gift; kindness is a choice. It's harder to be kind than clever.
選擇善良，也願善良的人被善待。
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