I went to say hi. ‘Get a room, you two.’ The sharp laughter from across the table momentarily drew everyone’s attention. Fran was sitting on Dav...’s lap, kissing him with undisguised passion. His hands were roaming over her ass, hers holding his face. ‘I swear, Dave, you two always look like you’re joined at the lips. Your hands are going to wear a hole in her jeans. You could at least wait until after the lesson.’ Dave broke from Fran’s kisses momentarily. ‘You’re just jealous because you. .. they never put the toilet seat down! Ben and Alice had been married a little over 20 years that fateful Saturday morning. They were a typical lower-middle class couple, living in an older, slightly shabby three-bedroom home that was in what had been a nice, new neighborhood 50 years ago, but was now showing signs of decay as the wealthier residents fled to more distant subdivisions. Still, they loved each other, and had stuck by each other through the joys and sorrows of raising two. ”With Yvonne’s promise, Matti relaxed and began to talk. “I found out something about Dawn, and it puts everything I thought we had together into doubt. Actually, it’s worse than ‘what I thought we had’ just being in doubt. Dawn has been lying to me since the first day I met her.”Yvonne quickly cut in and said, “I can’t believe that! Why would you say that?”Matti glumly replied, “I’m saying that because I know that it’s true.” Matti stopped long enough to look Yvonne in the eyes, and then. How wonderful it must be to walk the shining streets of the city, to drink from its clear springs, and to idle the time with the peaceful, charming citizens.The rational part of your brain, that small fragment that knows you are dreaming even as you dream, reminds you that, beautiful though the city may be, you have never actually reached the city. You always awaken before you can, sometimes while high above the city, as you are now, and sometimes as you float downwards, ready to land and begin.