His and Hers
So tell me, tooling through your teens, who was it that you thought you’d love forever?
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I met a woman at work many years ago and became lost in her eyes. We instantly connected, even when we wasn’t working close to each other, we looked for each other. It was magical.
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I love that John. See, we all have a tender tale to tell. 🙂
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Susannah, surprisingly, my long term affairs were never assumed to last forever, at least not by me. It was a shorter term love that broke my heart. I saw a future that didn’t enter my head with any of the others. I never realized this until you asked the question.
Luckily I met my Pookie, also known as my prince charming.
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I’ve had so many Prince Charmings, it’s like the King and I, with one too many Kings.
Pookie, the fact you call him that, tells us everything Skinny. 🙂
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How wistfully sweet!
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Did you have a hankering for a dandy before John? HMM
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Hankering? I don’t know. I dated several others before John. No! No! No! I’ll change my answer. I didn’t hanker for anyone after John, because I found him fine and dandy.
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What about before John. Did ya have a crush on anyone? An Inquiring Thingirl
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Yes, I dated two other fellows in high school. I thought each one was “it”, but John was the one.
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I knew you had a coupla practice balls, as they say…so to speak. John was and is, very lucky those two fellas didn’t cut the mustard. 🙂
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I rather think John and I deserve each other — good and not so good.
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You’re like bookends, you and John. You always speak so lovingly of him. He was your beau ideal alright, and you his. 🙂
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We finish each other’s sentences and laugh at the same things. He’s a keeper.
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I see that. We all need a John. 🙂
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I won’t read too much into our need for a John. I’m thinking bathrooms and pimps.
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Dear John…:)
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You thought of a “dear John” letter! I missed that one.
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That’s cause you must be busy cooking. I cook, just not in the kitchen. 🙂
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I’ll be cooking in a few hours, mostly serving things I’ve already prepared. Nathaniel has quietly taken the angst out of the day.
I hope you don’t cook the books.
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Now there’s an idea. 🙂
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I love you gift of people watching and the posts that come from it. That love from my youth that I thought would be forever? Actually drawing a blank … but you have reminded me of some past loves that didn’t work out for whatever reason. Maybe I didn’t experience deep love at that age. Hmmmm … now I’m wondering.
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Go back Frank. Who was your first crush? I know, the passionate man that you are, had to have one. 🙂
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My crushes were more on the unavailable or unattainable.
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I was a yearner too. My little shiny nose always pressed up against the window. 🙂
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Oh my … “yearner” is a great descriptor, as is the nose on the window. Yep … that was me!
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You weren’t alone. You probably just never noticed me next to ya, yearning. 🙂
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How true how true how true … and then probably not noticing those who looked at us with starry eyes.
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What a great sentence. Very Twainish. 🙂
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A day early … Happy Thanksgiving to you!
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I’ll take it Frank. Kind of you to think of your fellow yearner. 🙂
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It’s a deal. Let’s shake. 🙂
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Consider it done. 🙂
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🙂
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Excellent writing, as always
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Thank you. Nice thing to say.
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Her name was Rosemary but we called her Rosie. I met her in my last teenage year and fell hard. She was dating a neighba-hood guy from Kensington but I was determined to change that. Alas, she used me and left me. Years later she expressed regret for not having gotten with me and it kinda broke my heart all over again.
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Not to make light of your pain but, I love that story, how in hindsight someone saw what they missed. You gotta love that Mr. Imma.
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I did, later on.
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It’s a shame not to be realized by someone you like. I’ve had it happen countless times only to see that, in many ways I dodged a bullet. However, when it’s happening it’s pain like no other.
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Well yes, the rest of the story played out as it really should have. She was a great girl alright, and became a great woman. But I got together with her for coffee about ten years ago. Not for the purpose of rekindling since she was married and I did not wish to even entertain such a prospect with her.
We had become wholly different people. And I thought to myself that we had never been destined. It had simply been a romantic illusion borne of youth.
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When we’re kids, there’s nothing to consider but that twinkle that goes down to your toes. Lust can be such a prankster. Then we mature into who we were really meant to be filleting us right down the middle. I do miss being hot and clueless, I have to say. Now I’m old and know just too damned much. sigh
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When we’re kids, there’s nothing to consider but that twinkle that goes down to your toes. Lust can be such a prankster. Then we mature into who we were really meant to be filleting us right down the middle. I do miss being hot and clueless, I have to say. Now I’m old and know just too damned much. sigh
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I miss being clueless.
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I’ll be for the two of us. 🙂
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Not hardly. But if we pool our clueless moments together, we should be fine. 🙂
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“6The course of true love never did run smooth’…..( A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 1, Scene 2) One of my favorite such quotes.
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I guess Will would know. 🙂
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There have been many, though some don’t know of it even yet, and others I have hinted, but they are usually tied up in someone else. Now, I know better (I think/hope) and don’t plan on a 3rd marriage – but it is life, is it not?
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My goodness Kindred, you might be the cyber Elizabeth Taylor. 🙂
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hmm, wish I had some of those cyber millions then.
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The best may be yet to come.
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It always is, young lady.
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Let’s see… when I was in high school, I crushed hard for my gym teacher. I was 16, he was 28… we joked around so much, people thought we had crossed the line – which we didn’t.
Then.
He used to tell the other gym rats (of which I was one) that one day he would live with me. The nerve. And yet, five years later, we met and well… It was like a fairy tale when you think of it. I moved in and soon realised my prince charming was more of a frog and I gave away my prime years for a whole lotta…. we’ll call them lessons…
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Yeah but, you were smitten for a while. Right? Let’s face it, Champagne doesn’t last too long, those bubbles and all. But that first POP…WOW!!!
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Oh, I was very smitten…
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That’s a memory worth keeping. 🙂
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Yep.
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I guess no Wordless Wed. this week. sigh
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What?? I did schedule it!?
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It’s okay. I thought maybe the special Heroes edition changed it, but…hey…better late than never and a nice surprise. 🙂
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No, no… I buggered it up as it was after midnight when I scheduled it and chose the wrong box… d’oh!
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I see. Great photograph, but so they all are. You should have a show.
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You are too sweet
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Not sweet enough. Happy Thanksgiving Dale. 🙂
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Hah! I doubt it. And thank you (mine was last month 😉)
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I keep forgetting you’re in Canada, sigh
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No big whup. In the blogosphere we’re one big family…
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I guess so. It always feel as if we know one another intimately then all of a sudden, somebody splits and you’re kinda hurt. I’ve had that happen numerous times. Had a woman who used to send me books and cards who doesn’t even read the blog anymore. I have to remind myself, I never really knew her. It was spectral at best. Cyber living can be confusing.
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I think so. And I feel the same. I think it’s because we share our intimate thoughts so we’re more honest than in real life (i.e. face to face)
I remember you mentioning her. Could she have died? That’s the one thing about this world. We’re not on the notify list.
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I think people just disappear. They don’t want to continue for whatever reason…boredom, envy, something more serious like illness. I don’t know. I’ve learned to not take the defection personally. An art all its own
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Truly. It’s nice when they say goodbye, if they can… And no, we can’t take it personally.
Indeed it is.
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Crap! Thanks for the heads up. I screwed up.and accidentally scheduled for tomorrow. It’s up now!
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Oh…okay…when I get home.
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But thanks to you, I was able to rectify the situation!
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🙂
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Goodness is such a good word…GOODNESS!
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