Time passes swiftly and is irrecoverable. In Love in the Time of Cholera , Gabriel García Márquez uses cholera as an analogy for the physical and emotional burdens caused by longing and lovesickness. Just as Florentino Ariza suffers physical and emotional pains from his longing for Fermina Daza, as one might suffer from a disease like cholera, in this issue, Katz and Ye tell a story of longing for equal access to rheumatology services. 1 .