Do you think, Irene, given what you have fantasized of doing to Elizabeth, do you think you could be like Edward?’ There! I had gotten it out! Edwar... was my former fiancé, of whom I have written elsewhere, who had ended our engagement that spring after coming to realize that he preferred the affections of men to women. Now that I knew such people were real and as normal as any of us, I had naturally come to wonder if they mightn’t be far more common than I had once imagined. ‘Is that all you. It was hand-sealed, with no return address, a novelty to be sure, in this digital age of email and text messages. He picked it up & caught a faint scent, something half remembered and delicious. Not now…I’ll wait. There’s so much to do and the dog needs a walk and here he is sitting down with a long saved bottle opened just long enough. His pocket knife slipped out, and sliced open the seal. It was like she had stepped into the room across all the miles between. It had been years, but the. "But for how long? Chris had never left her alone this long, or had he? Brenda didn't have a watch on her, but it certainly seemed longer. Maybe he was still mad after the argument they had a few days ago. It was a silly little tiff really . . . at least to her, but Chris seemed pretty angry. It had to do with her going to nightclub with a few of her friends, like a ladies night out, and Chris was mad because she didn't tell him where she was going. Not that he would have let her go if she had.. After much merriment and frivolity things started to quieten down so I said my farewells and made my way to my apartment. I was lying on my bed in t-shirt and boxers watching whatever shit was on the TV at silly o'clock in the morning when there was a knock on the door, it was Jake holding a 6pack of beer, "can I come in?", he said, "you've got beer, of course you can", I replied.We Drank, chatted and laughed then sat with our backs against the headboard in companionable silence, then I.