Dylan's love life since his first divorce has been secretive, to say the least. In 1986, he married Carolyn Dennis, apparently one of many black backup singers he had affairs with. (Another, Clydie King, stands next to him in the picture above.) Dylan and Dennis divorced in 1992, but Dylan managed to keep this marriage a secret from the press for several more years. Dennis and Dylan promised their children privacy, with Dennis saying, "I have three children, but I'm not going to say which ones are Bob Dylan's... Bob Dylan has eight or nine children. We're not trading on that." Another lover, Susan Ross, was with Dylan for some dozen years starting in the mid-'80s. According to Ross, Dylan was charming and warm, but also essentially incapable of intimacy. Ross says she once asked him why they couldn't live together. His reply explains a lot about both his romantic history and his astonishing musical accomplishment: "Because I can barely live with myself."

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