I turned to look him in the eyes and a wicked grin spread across my face. I had sat apart from the happy couples in the pub, alone – at a table by m...self contemplating the night I met the man who put the band of gold around my finger. It was only two years today and I had smiled as I twirled the latticed ring around. I wore the same clothes I had worn that night, A short black dress with dark red stipes cutting across the belly and chest. I sat an angle to allow the same display of leg he had. She smiled before opening her eyesand opened her beautiful eyes. Wow. There was love in it.I handed her the coffee. Her hair was all messed up. But still she was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I kept on thanking my luck.She held the coffee and in a husky voice, Rani: Thank you. (like a baby).Me: you slept well. ???Rani: Yeah. Did you??(with a naughty smile).Me: Of course I did. You drank up all my energy. Didn’t you. (after a few minutes). Any programme today??Rani: Yeah. I have to. After the pledging period, this girl became a steady thing and we enjoyed the relationship until graduation, when she moved back home to nowhere, Arizona and I back home to Indianapolis.And, from that day forward, I never found another woman to take her place. Sure, I found a woman from time to time that was willing to spank me. Never hard enough. Never long enough. Never with the zeal of my college sweetheart.Over a decade had gone by and I’d met and dated so many women. And I’d not found that. He'd had a nightmare and I got him settled down and tucked back into bed with Robear, his brown teddy bear, and I headed back to my bedroom to go back to bed. I stubbed my toe on the bedpost and put my hand out to break my fall as I hobbled around on one leg. My hand pushed the window drapes aside and I looked out the window just in time to see a strange car pull into the driveway with its lights off. There were three people sitting in the front seat and the one in the middle was Mary.I waited.