" I wanted to. You mentioned it last night but I didn't see it on your bookshelf." When Jenny's condition got really bad, I used to stay over at the h...ospital. I brought my copy to read while she was asleep, but forgot it, left it in the room the day she..." His voice tailed away."Oh, Charlie, I'm sorry if I..." No, not at all," he replied smiling warmly. "I always intended to get another copy, but somehow I just never got around to it. And now you've... you've given me something very precious.. I was enjoying the drink and told him I would like another. I told him I was going to have a few beers. but this was much better. he made me the drink and went to serve another one of his patrons. I noticed that this drink was much stronger, but still tasted very good. the bartender talked to this other patron for a while. they both looked at me and chuckled. I finished my second drink and was going to leave when t. he bartender came over to me with a third drink. I told him I did not order it,. Then leaned down and placed a very gentle kiss on the side of her neck. The softness of his lips and the very rightness of him took her breath away, and she gasped. He paused, then kissed her again. She froze. He folded her into his arms and let her breathe for a moment. And then, slowly, wordlessly, he tilted her face up towards him, brushed a loose strand of her hair out of her eyes, and touched his lips to hers. She felt the world and its realities spinning away from her, and lost herself in. There was no problem and we had good sex, so good in fact that we got married six months later. We were going to wait until I graduated, but decided marriage was a better choice for us. When I graduated I found a job with a large law firm, and I'm with the same firm today - now as a junior partner and with a promise to become a senior partner within 2 years. Now that I am in a promising job, we decided to start a family and now have two kids.There was a difficult time when Sarah started asking.
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