None of you were born, yet, when the ice covered the world, but you have all heard the stories."Well, the ice is coming back, but it won't last as lon...g as it did the last time. The spirits didn't tell me how long the cold would last. It may last for one year, it may last for 20 years, or it may last for 100 years. The longer it lasts, the more ice there will be. It is a test for us to be sure that we are worthy of the trust that the spirits are putting in us. We must endure so that we can prove. ..and did not drink at all. But this night would be different. As she tells the story, it all began with her first Cosmopolitan, then a second and a third. Soon she was "tipsy." An hour or so later several young male accountants showed up at the bar and bought drinks for the ladies. She found herself standing at the bar with one of the young men and introduced herself. By this time she was way past tipsy. She excused herself to go to the restroom with a group of girls. One of them mentioned. I had literally an entire gallery of work dedicated to him. In the ten years it had taken to fill it, it had become known as the most romantic gallery in Japan and was on the top one hundred places to propose marriage. "I want to hear you say it."I smiled. Every so often, he seemed to need more assurance that I did. "Prince Nagahito of Akishino, I adore you. You are my light and my inspiration. If you had not opened my eyes, I would never have learned to see." Do you love me?" Deeply.. When my sister married Jill and I decorated the wedding suite with condoms filled with air and some with water like weird water balloons. We laughed and laughed as her lips got numb from the desensitize coating the condoms she blew up. Jill and I just seemed to connect but at that young age I did not know how to let her know my feelings or was in fear being rejected. Whatever the case she till was very special to me.Later that same year, I kept a smile but sadly attended Jill’s wedding to a.