By Maggie (rosalita36@ol.com)
Date: 13 November 2000
5AM
Life is sweet at 5AM. Morning people? I’d say so. There is no doubt that we will be together forever, because, as you are so fond of saying, you will never find another woman who actually LIKES getting up at 5AM. I feel you begin to stir beside me between the sheets. It is as if we are of one body…one internal clock. Or just two perfectly synchronized ones. I have tried to sleep in on occasion but a movie line comes to me…“I only want to sleep when YOU’RE sleeping”. I don’t fear I will miss anything, an excuse used by some to justify being up before the bugs. I just love our mornings together. The house is quiet. That is our time, spent in the haven of our bedroom. Before the kids rise, before the pressures of work make us responsible adults again. Oh, I know what some may think. Morning sex…only rarely. More often, it is simply coffee and cigarettes. Our joint effort at the morning crossword puzzle (you are better at it than I am, but I have occasionally seen surprise on your face when I am able to conjure up some obscure word that hasn’t been used since God was a boy). Imus in the Morning (but in small doses). Everyone can do these things in the morning. But it’s you, it’s us, that makes 5AM pleasant.
I love you deeply and forever….
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