It was so weird and wonderful ("Oh Bennie, she's really keen!"). As we lay in bed last night, I suddenly, somehow found myself laying next to someone I hadn't been in touch with for years. Instead of my 50-ish wife, I was with my high school sweetheart! I don't know how the years melted away so magically, but I held my hand against my girlfriend's cheek and caressed and hugged her, suddenly very in contact with the fervor of our youth. It wasn't a moment of sexual intimacy, just an appreciation of how we really still are the same people - and yet very different ones - from the kids who first fell so deeply in adolescent love over 35 years ago.
I didn't get a chance to express any of that before she told me I was being silly. But it was still a very special moment.
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