I've reclaimed my life and the love of my life. They're kinda the same thing actually.
But what's crazy is the story. You gotta hear the story.
Right now, when people see me and the love of my life walking hand in hand down the street, they smile at us because we're smiling. We get asked often how long we've been together.
We answer together:
"Well, this time only a few months."
"But we're really high school sweethearts."
The usual response is, "What!?!" "Are you serious?" or something similar to disbelief.
He likes to tell the story and I like how his face softens when he tells the story (his very good friend has observed it too and hence joked him and coined the phrase "long-blinks"), so I let him tell the story:
"We met in high school. We were going to different schools but had friends at the same school. Anyway, I went to all her dances with her. We even went to her prom together. But then after high school we were apart for more than 10 years. I was in New York and DC and Japan and she was in Los Angeles and The Bahamas, but we always stayed friends and kept in touch no matter what."
And it's crazy, he usually doesn't have to go any further. The way he looks at me, touches me, 'long blinks' and tells the story, folks just can't help but see a man truly in love and they just,
"AAAWWWW!!" "Look at how cute y'all are!" "Look at this man!" And they often have questions. They want to know about us, if we're really as in love as we look, what we do for a living, whatever.
All he does is talk about me, and I talk about him. I'm so proud of him, the person that he's become and the person that I know he will be. He tells the world the same about me, and he says he still has years to catch up on.
In restaurants, markets, coffee shops, on the street, people ask about us and are genuinely amazed. It's crazy!
Our old friends are shocked in the best ways. "How the hell did you find your ways back to each other!?!" "We didn't even know you two were back in the country!" And we have to humbly say we just love, "You look so good and happy together!"
And damn we really, truly are.
We are so in love we're anti-social (sorry to all my local peeps, it happens ya know) but we have the greatest adventures out together. We bought a bow off a dude on the street and got some arrows from his friend that same night, took them to the park and practiced our archery. We've since invested in our purchase and decided to make it a hobby (we look sexy with the bow).
I got to watch him rock the runway in front of hundreds of people in a high end boutique fashion show.
He met my favorite aunt who called him a fine, young man and gave him the ok. Hell, today we rode in drift cars around a speedway and it was the fastest time I've ever had in a car and AWESOME!!
If you are not familiar with the concept of drift racing, check the Wiki here and our YouTube video here. It's extremely dangerous, but extremely fun (when done by professionals, kids DO NOT TRY THIS WITH YOUR PARENTS CAR!!).
Even a spring nature hike is a wondrous event with him. He picks me Forget-Me-Nots and takes my picture while we sit on the rocks overlooking the lake at sunset. He brings spectacular moments to every second so that's miraculous in-and-of-itself.
He makes it very easy to answer one question. "Why did you leave the Bahamas to come back to Baltimore!?!"
I can look at my wonderful, 'long-blinking', loving, supportive, baby and say without a fragment of a doubt, "I came to be with him." This is the most right decision I have ever made in my life, I came to be with him.
So that's the story. That's where I am and what's going on with me. I'm blissful beyond anything I've ever imagined and I'm in another state of being. We're working together, living together, creating together, loving together. We're together and we're happy. It's very important to both of us and it consumes a great deal of our time and energy and we like it that way, so really pardon us if you happen to be amongst the people neglected because of our newly reclaimed relationship.
But don't you think it's for a good cause now that you know the story?
