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06-FEB-2002 01:51: My Holy Beautiful

And here we are. This is my Viking. This is my Holy Beautiful. This is my Dearly Beloved.



[pic of couple, kissing in an embrace]



The pic was snapped by a visiting photographer friend about a year ago, who took it as we were preparing supper for our guests and stopped midstream for a kiss. We didn't know it had been taken until it arrived in our mailbox a week later. I was 14 when I met this man. He was 16. I once chased him, barefoot through the snow, to deliver a love letter I'd written after we'd had an argument. Here's one for my Belovedness . . .


They tried to tell us
we're too young --
Too young
to really be in love
They say that
Love's a word
A word we've only heard
But can't begin to know
the meaning of

And yet we're not
too young to know --
This love will last
though years may go
And then some day
they may recall
We were not
too young
at all.

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