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Number Twenty-six: Happily ever afte
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Dear Number Twenty-six,

 

Don’t worry, I won’t write about our sex life. You have diplomatic immunity, you see, and so nobody is permitted to X-ray or open the suitcase that contains our love and our sex life. Honestly, that’s how it is. Psst! State secret! But if you want to know, you can always ask me, grin-grin-grin.   

 

Dear Number Twenty-six, you are my happy ending. And like every happy ending in every Hollywood movie ever made, there was a good dramatic script with quite a few twists and turns before we could live happily ever after. We both managed to screw up royally a few times, but in the end it was these screw-up times that gave us the opportunity to rub each other up the wrong way sufficiently to learn what our right way was. Because, just like an orchestra or a football team has to become attuned to each other and train hard to become a top team and make beautiful music together, we too had to learn all this. And I thank you so much for your tenacity, because the music we make together is most wonderful. It’s the number one hit in my Chart of the Heart. And as for our beautiful game – well no contest, we’re the undisputed Champions of the World!

 

Dear Number Twenty-six, I have some fears and worries and questions, too. I am scared that we, too, will flounder when faced with the irony of the ages old and as yet unresolved conundrum of reconciling love, closeness, head space, trust, daily routine, faithfulness, sex and passion. Will we, can we, do we want to manage to resist the temptations thrown at us by this nasty world brimming with interesting and attractive people? And how will we manage this? And will we be able to avoid getting on each other’s nerves and one day ending up silently sitting opposite one another in some restaurant, with nothing to say anymore? Will we be able to hold on to our love and not watch it slide away, like it so often does? Why should our relationship work, when so many others fail? What will our secret be? And will we share it once we’ve found it?
Dear Number Twenty-six, I can tell you one thing though: I intend to keep you. And it will be my pleasure, my labor of love, to do all I can to ensure that things remain as wonderful as they are now for as long as is humanly possible. Best of all, forever. With you, I feel real and strong and beautiful and sexy and special. I feel that I have “arrived” with you. Forever. I am your wife and that’s wonderful. Let us make lots of cute little babies, let us plant trees, let us buy a house in the Hollywood Hills, let us always be as happy as we’ve been for so long already. Let us go through thick and thin together. Let us savor the good times together and somehow get through the bad times together. Let us continue to sing silly little songs all day long. Let us discover the world at our feet. Let us grow into an even bigger “us” – and at the same time, let us grow individually. Let us continue to grant one another the freedom we each need. Let us continue to have wonderful sex, even when we’re old and wrinkly. Let us always hug and cuddle and make out, like we’ve always done. Let us take care that we don’t lose each other. Let us take care of one another. Let us always be able to add a bit of new, fresh firewood to the fire of our passion, so that the flames never die down. Let us never stop kidding around, being silly, having so much fun. Let us always be able to talk about anything. Let us always be friends. Let us allow each other to have a few secrets. Let us be in love, always and forever. You are my friend. My partner. My husband. You are so beautiful, inside and out. And let us always eat blueberry pancakes. Come what may.

 

Your J.

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