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THE GUARDIANDegrees of separation: Living apart is an occupational hazard for academic couples.
When astronomy lecturer Dr Andy Young is not researching what happens to hot gases after they fall into black holes, he is usually on a late-night or pre-dawn train.
For while he works at Bristol University, his wife, Dr Zoe Leinhardt, works at Cambridge and lives there with their three-year-old son, Jude. They are happily married, but to get good jobs in their fields they have been forced to live apart for the last two years and travel long hours to see each other and keep the family together.