(Although "Prologue" was written open-ended, it was never my original intention to write a sequel for it. Within hours of publishing it, however, a way to move forward presented itself so the following should be considered Prologue's second chapter. Maybe I should call it "Baby Steps" because that's my approach. If successful, I hope to write a third chapter, If it doesn't work . . . well, sorry for wasting anyone's time.)
How is it that you can know someone for so long only to find you hardly knew them at all?
I'd been out of college for nearly a year when I first met my then-future husband. Although he was 10 years older, I was immediately attracted by his intelligence and found him to be an easy conversationalist on a wide range of subjects. He was also a very funny guy who just made me laugh and, probably best of all, he had no ex-wives or rug rats in his baggage train. Amazingly, at a time when kids who'd gone to high school with me were working on their third husbands, my guy was 33 but yet to be married.
So how was he in the sack, you ask? Well, maybe not the greatest, but then who really is, you know? Stirling Moss once said there were two things all men claim to do really well, and we know most of them aren't very good drivers, either. All I know is that on our third date, while my housemate was gone for the weekend, this guy spread me out on the sofa like a banquet and hoovered my red wagon to the point where I saw fancy colors for the rest of the weekend. A girl should keep in mind that there's always something better out there or what's a heaven for, but this keeper left me a satisfied consumer. We were engaged two months later.