"She'll be mine soon, very soon actually, she just doesn't know it yet," he said non-nonchalantly."Tell you what, I won't wager your soul or cause you...any physical pain for denying me. But, let's say we put that statement of yours to the test. Let's find out IF love is most powerful of all. Knowing is different from believing. Knowing God exists or knowing I exist doesn't mean a thing. So I'm asking you to prove your belief that love is the most powerful force on earth. You will not be putting. .. love. Always and forever, we would love each other. Love for us meant respecting one another, as well as having fun together. It meant a lifetime of shared adventures and complete trust. It meant a search for excitement, absolutely, yet we would also never be without our security blanket.We wanted nothing more than to bring each other endless joy.In a soft voice she said, "God, we had such a wonderful wedding. Everything about that day was perfect." Then she gave me a cute grin. "I still. She has some time before her meeting today, so she drives to what she now thinks of as her special Donald spot. The secluded place in the community garden center where she first finished setting up her phone and waited for his call. Is it really so few days ago? She takes the pamphlet out and begins to read. Her mouth opens, and she blushes deeply as she does. Her Professor wants her to do this to him? Really? Would it be enjoyable for him?As she reads more about what he wants, and what it. Slightly discomfited, I turned on my heel and trotted down the short dingy concrete corridor that led underneath the grandstand and out onto the floor of the stadium itself, and began my routine of warm-ups, ready for the final of the women’s 800 metres.Whether it was gamesmanship or not, she must have got under my skin. I didn’t run a sensible race in the final – I was too keen to put her in her place, and of course instead the outcome was the opposite. I set off much too fast in the first.