I who have stood since the time of the great cedars. Those tall giants, straight and strong, were cut for ships. I who raise my arms like a cripple be...ging the sun, my skin bursts in spring with scented lips. Come summer, I unfurl lime hearts to cool the earth.I remember her. She was a villager fleeing up the hill to escape the smoke and shelling. She helped a man climb with her until he could not step higher, and she took him to my shade.She was determined but weary, small for her age, young. .. and school started on the Eighth ... unless the Seventh happened to fall on a Friday. The Unions got more powerful and Labor Day was rearranged so it made a three day holiday ... unless it fell on Thursday ... and then the Union was off until the following Monday. A four day celebration celebrating Labor.After the first conflict, when the Princessapality became a Nation, Too ... Wendy Too, the first Princess but the second Wendy ... except she was really Wendolyn the first ... because the. Charming I thought. When Donna came back in the room she said to me "More drinks darling", as I went to get them, Donna winked at me. A few minutes later I returned with more drinks, Donna and Paula were sat next to each other, as they talked donna was running her hand up and down Paula's arm. Suddenly Paula stopped talking and looked at Donna, smiled, leaned in and kissed her.They were both in a clinch kissing each other and snogging hard. I sat on the sofa and watched. As Paula pulled away. I smiled back, but returned my attention to my beer. My head's wired differently, I know I'm strange. Single girls don't interest me. I look for the older women with wedding rings on their left hands. None of my friends have this obsession. But I can't help myself. Since that first time with Suzanne, the only thing that excites me is fucking women who belong to other men. Sometimes I get lonely, and wish I could have a long term romantic relationship. But how would that work? I don't see how I.