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Winged Messenger of Heaven

I remember…
…how it felt when we washed our hands together like you showed me.  The wonderful sensations of your touch on my hands and then my turn with yours will always linger in my memory.  

Romeo and Juliett by William Shakespeare
Romeo speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o’er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.

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Been Mine Before

 I remember…
…you laying on your back on the bed in denim shorts and your bra while we were on vacation when the ice cream fell from your cone onto your upper stomach.  You put it back on your cone, I licked the left-over off you and we laughed. 

From “Sudden Light” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I have been here before
But when or how I can not tell.
You have been mine before
How long ago I may not know

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My Most Consistent Prayer

I remember… 
…how good you were with kids.  I wish we had made one.

From A” Year From Wednesday© by James Browning
I will think of you constantly through each day and faithfully write you like we promised.  I will pray for your safety and good health but my most consistent prayer will be that we make deed and truth out of our promise to each other.  Know I am filled with life and the first new hope I have felt in a long while…. And it’s all your fault!

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I Feel You Stir

I remember…
…how I loved to touch your face and how connected to you I felt when I did.

Robert Browning to Elizabeth Browning Nov. 17, 1845
Now, my love… My whole life is wound up and down and over you… I feel you stir everywhere.  I am not conscious of thinking or feelings but about you… so I will live, so may I die

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More Today Than Ever

I remember…
…how sometimes you ‘d rub my neck and run your fingers through my hair when we were sitting side by side.

Duff Cooper to Lady Diana Manners August 20, 1918
Darling, my darling.  One line in haste to tell you that I love you more today than ever in my life before, that I never see beauty without thinking of you or seeing happiness without thinking of you. You have fulfilled all my ambition, realized all my hopes, made all my dreams come true.

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Object of My Thoughts

I remember…
…how you loved that old ratty sweatshirt you wore all the time.  It was falling apart, but so soft.

Napoleon to Josephine March 14, 1796
I am less able to exist so far from you.  You are the constant object of my thoughts; I exhaust my imagination in thinking of what you are doing.  If I see you unhappy my heart is torn, and my grief grows greater.

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Very Heavy Heart

 I remember…
…how you  knew all those ways off the beaten path to get around town with your “super secret shortcuts”.

Tsarina Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia December 30, 1915
Off you go again alone and it’s with a very heavy heart I part from you. No more kisses and tender caresses for ever so long — I want to bury myself in you, hold you tight in my arms, make you feel the intense love of mine.

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Love… Directs Your Course

I remember…
…you were the first woman I was ever at ease with doing most of the driving when we were out.  I trusted you… 

“Love” by Kahlil Gibran (from “The Prophet”)
When you love you should not say,
“God is in my heart”, but rather,
“I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love,
For love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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My Heart Flown Open

I remember….
…sharing a Coke and popcorn at the movie theatre and then holding hands while we watched the movie.

From “A Year From Wednesday© by James Browning
 …My heart had been slowly closing to the world for over a decade and I thought had been slammed shut and locked tight for the rest of time.  Then out  of nowhere you appeared and without even trying the doors of my heart have flown open.  Be kind dear one as now I can be hurt so easily while this exposed and open to you…

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That Great Heart of Yours

I remember…
…you like mustard on a ham sandwich and not mayonnaise.

Mark Twain to His Wife Olivia on January 16, 1969
….I am so bound up in you, and you are in my thoughts so constantly by day and in my dreams by night and you have become so completely a part of my life – of my very flesh and blood and bone… Oh, I do love you…