By Patricia Hermes
Date: 4 December 2000
Be Still My Heart
"He's so close to me that I can see the faint shadow on his face where he's beginning to need a shave. And he's half-smiling at me, but he looks worried,too. We stay that way for a second. "You don't know what I mean?" he says. I'm about to say, No I don't know. But suddenly I do know. I do. Countess has been right all along. You do know when it happens. And this has happened at the wrong time with the wrong person. With my best friend's boyfriend..."
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