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\par           The raindrops appeared quietly against the window, clinging to the glass and slowly building into long 
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\par  veins of sparkling water running down the pane and along the edge of the sill . 
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\par I watched  the ever changing pattern from my position on the bed , happy to be snuggling under the warm covers. 
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\par     I felt the movement of her hand as it brushed my bare skin under the wool blanket.  She let her hand rest 
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\par for a moment on my soft, and most intimate part and I felt a slight stirring begin.
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\par    It was a delicious feeling to have some attention paid to me this way.  I looked down at her head nestled against 
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\par my bare shoulder, the strands of her hair circled  lazily all the way to my navel. The heaviness of her head lay 
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\par warmly against the bareness of my skin. I let my mind wander along the length of our nakedness, savoring the 
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\par feeling of her softness as she held herself against me. Her legs had intertwined with mine and the heat of our 
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\par bodies came into each other. It was hard for me to tell where her skin left off and mine began, we  blended together
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\par  like twisted bolts of fine silk. 
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\par    I felt a tingling sensation in my spine begin to react to her movements and spread throughout my body.  I could 
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\par sense an  encompassing loveliness envelope the atmosphere around us.  
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\par     She whispered,  \'93My darling\'94 and squeezed me firmly.  I held her against my skin, and felt her need expand.  
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\par She opened  her body to me slowly,  like long white flower petals under the early morning sun.
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\par   I pressed my lips to hers and we  kissed  with a feeling of complete and utter trust.  Our eyes were closed, and the
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\par  understanding transferred between us could not be explained with words.  Emotions continued to sweep over us as 
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\par we moved together kissing, until a final mutual outpouring of physical energy crested and released  itself upon us. 
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\par   The afternoon grew along with our love making and the rain came harder at times. We nestled close under the 
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\par covers drifting into sleep, and out again. I enjoyed the softness of her  breath brushing  against my skin,  it 
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\par measured short and faint when she slept, but when she was awake, it came long and hot and sometimes her nostrils 
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\par flared.  
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\par    During our passionate embraces we became each other for  an instant, and in that breath of time, we understood 
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\par something and shared it completely.  Later, lying in each others arms, I felt her heart beating .   It was just a little 
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\par thing, a heart beat, mysterious and unassuming, and yet somehow the pulsing revealed an 
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\par  honesty far greater than anything I had ever known before.
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\par     I held her close and pressed myself into the warmth of her body, wanting to be under her beautiful skin.
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\par  A marvelous feeling of awareness came over me and I realized that all of my life I have been searching for this.  
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\par  Searching for this certain something  that two people share, this certain something that makes them special, today 
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\par my search has brought me here, to this place, with the one I have found.
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\par   I lay with my head on the pillow next to hers and we watched the storm beat raindrops against the glass. 
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\par                                                                                                                                                       John St.Martin
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