There, a meter or two off of my center of view I got my first glance of you. The first thought, in favour of honesty, that ran through my head was tha... you just may be the first actually charming catch the night with something more going than just looks, That's if one could judge another's character solely from their eyes, an ability that I had trained myself to be especially adept in due to its usefulness."Ha!" Was the second thought as I took my just-ordered glass of cognac, got ff my chair,. Another thing that made me stressed out was this racial competition that did not sit well with my deep down beliefs in racial equality. All of this made me really tired of the competition, really tired of trying to be an alpha male, and really tired of trying to prove that white guys were equal or better than black guys. This is not the main point of the story though, this is just to lay the psychological foundation of my mindset. Underlying all of this during the same time period was a. .”“I believe it’s forever.”She smiled. “I think you’re right. We’re totally working this.”“I think so.” We’d come out of Thanksgiving week with Becky moving in with me. Since then, we’ve speckled the map visiting such local attractions as we could handle in December and January. We have some trips planned. Now I’ve got the mate for this stuff. We know how to do real things with other real people and I want to do them with Becky.“I’m gonna put the house on the market, Brad.”“Kinda makes this. The men on board the ship were working up a sweat transferring the cargo stored below and staging it topside in readiness to be offloaded when the ship docked in port. Weakened from the drain of a high fever, seasick most of the voyage, Allison was eager to salvage a pleasant memory by sunning herself. Soaking up the sunshine and feeling the moisture of the fresh salt, sea air cool her warm skin, she basked in the glory of the beautiful day. Finally, with the fever gone and her stomach settled.