He had wanted this to be romantic, but he was flubbing it. He took a deep breath and spoke again.“Lilly, not a day has gone by that I haven’t wish...d I could have kept you safe with me. I know it sounds foolish, but I fell in love with you in just one day, and I’ve loved you ever since. I’ve waited every day for you to return to me. And what happens when you do? I mess it up by being an idiot.”She gave him half a smile.“Would you do me the honor of becoming my wife for real?” he asked. ” When he walked into his apartment, Jerry hung his jacket on the hook by the door and then got a cold beer from the fridge. He turned on the TV and watched the late news while finishing it. He decided to make it an early night and went to bed. **** Jerry slept in the following morning and didn’t get out of bed until eleven. He walked into the kitchen and put on the coffee maker. The sun was shining outside but the thermometer on the window sill said it was close to freezing. While he waited. The plane took a little longer to get into the air, but that was okay. I mean, I had never used anywhere near all the runway and I really didn't that day either. Again I felt like I had something in common with the early fliers. Especially the air mail pilots between the two great wars. They almost always few in cold weather in the winter. The also flew unheated planes. Their's probably were a lot colder than mine. Their planes were open cockpit planes for the most part. Mine at least had a. Even though I liked him and had liked plenty of the men that I had slept with in the past, in order to get my way, I didn’t love him or expect any type of lasting relationship. I was a stripper, an escort and now a porn actress, so I didn’t really expect to have a normal relationship with any man. I nervously smoked another cigarette until we finally arrived at the set. This movie was to be an amalgamation of the stories that had occurred in my other 4 previous movies. I was a young, black.