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What makes life worth living are the saints I meet-they can be long-time friends or someone I meet on a street. They find a way to behave decently in an indecent society.
My marriage has not been a drudge. But in 29 years there are times where it's not all excitement, thunderbolts and shooting stars. You have to think, 'I like you and I rate you,' and you'll ride it out.
Like safety, that you've got everything covered; no stress, no fear.
Like I've been kidnapped of my senses.
A wonderful, terribly exciting disease.
A dizzy flamenco.
Friendly and warm.
Breathlessness.
Being hit on the head with a brick, and like a bowl of hearty soup.
Jumping on the seats of a deserted carriage on a London-bound train from Canterbury in 1989.
Entirely comfortable and warm – the edge of it can be white heat, but the best kind is room temperature.
Like there's nothing you can do about it.
The love and the light in that book astounds me.
I was always a watcher.
"The love you take is equal to the love you make" – Lennon/McCartney.
Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.
Like you are seen.
Safe, strong and smiley.
Basking in the sun.
Right now, terrifying.
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