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Sunday, April 12, 1992 By Judith Nolan
“In the
universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown,
and in between, there are doors...”
William Blake
They lay side by side in the semi-darkness, the only illumination coming
from the city lights gleaming beyond the French doors of her apartment.
Catherine rested with her head and one arm flung across Vincent’s bare
chest, her naked leg entwined between his. She sighed her deep
contentment, turning her head to press a kiss to the warm, golden skin
of his chest before settling back again.
“Tell me what you are thinking right now. What you’re feeling.”
Vincent’s chest rose and fell with the depth of his ragged sigh. “That I
was not alive until the night I found you, Catherine. You opened such
doors for me. Showed me things I had never dared to dream could be
possible. You allowed the light to shine in on the darkest places of my
soul and made them whole with your touch. For that alone I shall be
eternally grateful.”
“Not bad...” Catherine approved, lifting her head to smile at him. “And
now, here we are again, five years later. We were too preoccupied to
notice earlier. It’s almost dawn. Happy anniversary, my love. I truly
love you more than life itself.”
“Not bad indeed…” Vincent whispered teasingly, kissing a lingering path
along the soft skin of her upper arm as he rose from the bed, turning to
her. Cradling her soft beauty in his embrace, he laid Catherine on her
back, seeing her smile as she waited breathlessly for their loving to
begin again — as it always would — for there could only ever be one for
the other. And the sensual hunger blossoming anew between them was
unbounded.
Vincent looked down at her, this seemingly fragile beauty with her deep
core of boundless inner strength, and he felt humbled.
And eternally grateful she had
come into his life, one dark night in the park.
Was it only by pure chance he had
found her there? He would never know. And perhaps that was for the
best.
“Happy anniversary, my heart and soul…” he whispered, as he lowered his
mouth to hers, and the world spun away into oblivion once more…
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