He wasn't the young man who had once loved her. Nor was she the same
woman. They were more patient now. They didn't tumble onto the bed,
but lowered slowly, knowing each moment was precious when so many had
been lost.
And yet, though they had changed, their bodies moved easily together.
When she reached for him the years seemed to vanish.
Public Secrets
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By Виктория Злых - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76837594
The psychology of why rekindled romances are so intense
Last month, the New York Times’ Modern Love column told the
tale of two romantic relationships that ended and were then rekindled many
years later. The author’s romance first ended when her boyfriend lost the piece
of paper with her address and had no other way of contacting her. When they saw
each other again after 20 years, she writes, “Our long-lost love was still
there.”
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It was a very subdued Rogan who left his grandmother's parlor and
swung by the gallery just past closing. He didn't want to believe he'd
seen what he knew he'd seen. Just as Maggie had once said, when a
couple is intimate, they throw off signals.
His grandmother, for God's sake, was flirting with Maggie's
moon-faced uncle from Galway.
Born in Fire