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Wide awake

Last night I woke up at 3:20 wide awake...I hate that. I thought about writing and my books and pretty much convinced myself there in the dark that I can't write. Over coffee this morning my sweet husband said "really, you've written six and are working on your seventh, keep writing". In the light of day, he's right!

Irrational about men

“I
like the sex. I want to have fun, there’s nothing wrong with that,” she said, explaining
herself.

Linda
turned off the heated seats and took a drink of her bottled water. She thought
about times in her life when she had been irrational about men, most of those
times were in her teen years and her twenties. Stella had been the good
Catholic girl and then boom she was married and starting a family. She hadn’t
experienced life and it showed.

            “Then go have fun and don’t worry
about the rest. Obviously the baby hasn’t changed anything for him, he’s still
sleeping with you,” Linda said calmly.




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Who cares

“Pat, he hasn’t called me back yet,” I said.

We were sitting in the hot tub. The wind was
blowing and making the Aspen trees sway into each other, their limbs still bare
of leaves. The air was no longer the biting cold it could be. Much of the snow
around the house had melted leaving patches here and there of dirty crusty snow
swimming in a sea of mud. A thick cloud cover made the sky dark. Even the
weather seemed to be depressed.

“Who cares, you leave next week to go back
home, back to Max,” he said.




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Pretty much

“I
asked for a divorce,” Stella said apathetically.

“Come
on. You simply walked up to Tommy and said ‘I want a divorce’?”

Stella
thought about him sitting in the den. He’d asked for sex, she had said no, he
had not been in a good mood. “There’s no good time,” she’d heard Jillian’s reassuring
words. Tommy, I want a divorce, had
spilled out like water from a glass in slow motion.
“Pretty much...



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Indian style

            “So
how was dinner?” Gayle asked.

            We were sitting cross legged, Indian
style, on the platform in the oak tree.  We’d just shared a cigarette.

            “Dinner was good.  Not seeing Mathew was bad.”

            “I thought you went to his house?”
Gayle questioned.

            “We did but he wasn’t home.  I was so bummed.”

            “Shoot, you were looking forward to
seeing him.”

            “I know, and instead I got to play
tag with his brother and sister and watch a movie with
his parents,” I said.

            Gayle laughed.




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Pushed

          He
was so matter of fact about it that it didn’t seem strange. I wondered if she
was still in love with him, why she hadn’t pushed for a divorce. I understood now
that relationships came in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Liz and I recently had
that conversation, about how weird they were. 



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Have a story

We all have a story....last night we lost Dennis' dad.  He lived a good life, but we will miss him.  Right now I wish I knew more of his story...

Convoluted love

           It was sort of an out of the blue question. I reflected back on the
two relationships and what they’d meant. Ryan had asked me a similar question
the evening we sat under the Cypress tree in Carmel, on the trip back from San
Francisco without Karen. I’d thought then his question was about love, being in
love. I wondered why it mattered to him.

            “I haven’t thought
about either in a long time. With Mathew it was such a convoluted love. When I
think back now to how intensely I loved him it wasn’t sensible. We had a
connection that neither of us could refute, but it wouldn’t have worked in real
life. You know, day to day life. Mom said we ran too hot and would burn out,
she was probably right,” I said.




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Caged animal

            “I
can’t drive,” Stella slurred, tripping up on her words.

“Figured
that was coming,” Jillian said. “You want me to call Tommy?”

“No,
please no. He’s already pissed at me. Can you drive me home?” Stella asked in a
panic.

Jillian
felt sorry for her. What a way to live. Like an animal in a cage, always happy
to be out, afraid of having to go back.

“I
can take you home, Stella, calm down” she reassured her.




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What are you thinking...

       Mathew
rolled toward me and reached out drawing me to him.  I let him versus fighting it.  My back was reclined against his chest.  I remembered when he did this at the beach.  I wondered what he was thinking, like I did
then.  He played with my hair with his
free hand, rolling it around his finger and then letting it go.  I felt self conscious with Bobby there.  We were on our third beer when Bobby got up.




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