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19th Sep, 2007

Good for the Soul

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Me: What are you going to do?

Him: They say confession is good for the soul.

Me: Oh.

Me: Is that what they say?

Me: ‘Cause I always thought it was that confections were good for the soul.

******

Him, much later: What do you want me to tell you?

Me: Everything. Start at the beginning and tell me everything.

Him: Ok. Well, around January of this year…

Me, interrupting: No. The beginning.

Him: Oh. Ok.

Him: *long pause*

Him: Well, in August of last year…

Me, interrupting again: No! The beginning! I want to know the whole story starting from the beginning.

Me: Like this: “I was born…”

Him: Oh. That beginning.

******

Me, giving hug: I love you.

Him, dejected: How can you love me after this.

Me: I want to believe that what’s gone on between us is real, no matter what else has happened in the outside world.

Him: It is real. There was never any doubt about that.

Me: I’m probably being terribly naive, but I want to believe.

Posted by: aag

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Responses

i don’t get it. stb-ex? lover? abstract? who were you talking with?

By: Griffyn on September 19th, 2007
at 12:03 am

whoever it was, it is good that at least you are communicating. you seem comfortable around each other.

xo
miss s

By: Miss S on September 19th, 2007
at 12:32 am

The beginning ……
those are always hard to share..

By: SillyGirl01 on September 19th, 2007
at 1:01 am

Well, dear AAG, that was certainly a gripper of the beginning of a post…………..

Now, where’s the rest? After what? It certainly sounds serious if it would lead him to question your feelings.

I agree with Miss S….. it’s good that you are talking about whatever it is.

hugs
E

By: Edward on September 19th, 2007
at 6:09 am

Everything is very real - in certain moments. They come, and sometimes fade, or are replaced by other real moments. Sometimes they hurt with the prick of realness. We are forever changed by the real moments, and the feelings we feel there.

By: Rosie on September 19th, 2007
at 9:12 am

Don’t y’all realize by now that sometimes you don’t get the whole story from me?

This is not a newspaper.

:)

By: aag on September 19th, 2007
at 9:26 am

I was going to send you a letter telling you that your comics section sucks.

But now that you’ve cleared that up, I won’t bother.

:-)

By: Rupert on September 19th, 2007
at 9:34 am

You’re SUCH a tease ;o)

By: Slow Learner on September 19th, 2007
at 9:41 am

Not trying to be a tease.

I’m just incapable of writing everything.

By: aag on September 19th, 2007
at 9:44 am

Not as cryptic as it might have been. I get the tenderness. And I really hope you aren’t being naive. It hasn’t sounded like it so far.

By: John on September 19th, 2007
at 11:31 am

Is this one of those things where if you stare at the little dots long enough a clear picture emerges? Yep, yep I see it now!
XX

By: A. Secret on September 19th, 2007
at 12:21 pm

funny, to me the post is complete.

it has a beginning and a middle and an end… that we don’t get to see the in-betweens that lead to these places is okay because sometimes what you imagine is all the more real for coming from your own demons rather than someone else’s.

miss aag you are a tease for certain but not so much as all that. be naive if it suits you, you’ve headed into this part of your life with your eyes and heart wide open… and i still like that quote:

heartbreak is how you know that you’ve tried.

By: badinfluencegirl on September 19th, 2007
at 12:26 pm

Trust me, if I gave you guys every single detail of my very pedestrian life, you’d be bored to tears.

Part of the fun of reading something should be that your mind gets to fill in the blanks whatever way you’d like.

:)

By: aag on September 19th, 2007
at 12:28 pm

It seems complete to me too. It’s always a strange balancing act, figuring out what you can be happy revealing while also retaining some privacy.

Be well. I have faith in you.

By: O on September 19th, 2007
at 1:17 pm

I hope you remember the email i send ya about my situation. Things on my end are much better now, if different. All things change in time. We just have to hope we can find a way to live with whatever comes.

By: god hates raiders fans on September 19th, 2007
at 2:55 pm

Yeah, like making up little background stories of him and you. filling in the blanks.

By: Gije on September 19th, 2007
at 8:09 pm

You can’t make this kind of life change without emotional tides and turmoil. Once there was a time … but not any more. It doesn’t make that time meaningless.

*best wishes your way, babe*

By: Gadfly on September 19th, 2007
at 11:06 pm