What can I say about this. I just wanted to try something different.
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How do I start something like this? How can I put into words my feelings about what has happened to me, how my life has changed so much, how everything I thought about myself has been turned on its head?
I won't start at the beginning, that is too much of a clichΓ©, but I will say I had a conservative childhood with middle class parents bringing me up with the usual moral standards and expectations of behaviour. Nothing exceptional to say just a normal process of childhood, teenage years and marriage. It is after the marriage failed that things became, at least for me, out of the ordinary. My husband went and did the typical thing of screwing his secretary, totally unimaginative if you ask me now, then of course I went crazy, threw ornaments and generally slipped into a state of depression. We had no children so I was left alone, most of our friends were mutual so some followed him, a couple stayed loyal to me. There was only Estelle who was truly my friend.
Estelle. Oh what can I say about Estelle. A free spirit is the best way I suppose, she had never married but had never been short of boyfriends, admirers and the occasional Romeo who would offer to throw everything away for her, declaring undying love and devotion. She let them play a bit and then casually discarded them, not horribly or callously but with a gentle, soft smile and an elusiveness akin to those fairy figures always at the edge of our imagination. Discarded lovers would cherish her always, their eyes would brighten at her name, a fleeting thought, a memory. Estelle represented, does represent, the side of us that we often cannot find, the free unchained energy that feeds on all the good in life and having digested it offers it back as something more, something almost purer.
Estelle has changed my life forever. You see last night she made love to me. There, I have said it. I made love with another woman, me, little bashful Alice. I made love with another woman, to another woman and had a woman make love to me. Given my background this is, was, monumentous. How do I feel? What do you think? I feel like something inside of me has been let free, that perhaps something of Estelle's wonderful outlook on life has rubbed off onto me, if you will excuse the pun. I haven't turned from men. I am not looking for a relationship with Estelle, a woman or a man at the moment. It is just that something happened last night, it wasn't the sex, it was something bigger. Perhaps you know what I mean, perhaps I do not need to explain it. I sense though, that you do want to hear about... it. I thought so you naughty minded soul. OK. This is what happened.