better than drinking alone

"Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness,

which is better than drinking alone."

Or: the waitress and the businessman in Piano Man were once Othello and Desdemona, and the prince and princess in Story the Fourth of The Snow Queen, in a past life. Not to mention Savitri and Satyavan.

This could make for a nice crossover headcanon in which the red string runs as a tangent through the whole plotline.

(PS. My own parents, divorcés and amicable exes, are a former waitress with a sheltered upbringing and a businessman of the world... so is this red string running along the plot all way round? Ersatz names Sixten and Nena?)