Ten years ago, in a rose garden in Upstate New York (before
gay marriage was legal there) in a ceremony officiated by a poet, Sweetie and I
said our vows in front of our family (even the most conservative members
attended) and friends. It was a perfect day, exactly the way we’d envisioned
it.
To celebrate her general state of wonderfulness, here are
ten things I love about Sweetie:
1. She is beautiful. She has the most baby-deer sincere
eyes, softsoft shoulders, spectacular bosoms and highly smoochable lips. My
body fits perfectly with hers and the smell of her is the deepest of animal
comforts.
2. She is smarter than anybody. She has absolutely no
patience for nonsense except for (thank goodness!) mine.
3. She is my best friend. Sometimes, especially if we have a
nice, leisurely Saturday afternoon ahead of us, we’ll lay down to have sex but
seeing her face will make me just start yammering. She opens me all up, and
though sometimes I know I have just a few more words than she’d prefer, she’s
always, always there to talk with. I’m so very grateful.
4. I love the way she gets really worried if she sees a
groundhog or some goslings about to cross the road. She’s protective of everything, especially me—once before we
were even dating, it started to rain and she was worried that I’d left without
a coat, so she went to my house to get me one.
5. I’m happy doing nothing with her. One of the best weeks
recently was the week when the new Arrested Development season came out and we
spent all kinds of time binge-watching episodes. Oh, Sweetie and me and our
love affair with the couch. And the bed. And the garden. And the porch.
6. She’s so unbelievably generous! All week this week, even
though she has her own full-time job, she’s been coming into school with me
early every day to help pack up my classroom. She always takes care of me so
well and I know I could never even BEGIN to make it up to her.
7. Strawberry waffles in bed every Saturday. Romantic trips
to the Whole Foods for sushi and salted caramels. Broccoli soup in the
wintertime. Getting like six fortune cookies with every Chinese food order.
Morimoto for fancy ramen on really auspicious or really trying occasions.
Beachside sundaes. Making dinner for her and sometimes for her and other
sweeties too.
8. She listens to me cry when boys are mean to me and hardly
ever gets frustrated with me for letting them. She roots for the dudes who make
me happy (the whole cast of characters at the moment) but when times are tough
she says the lesbians will always be willing to renew my membership. (She says
she has an in with the committee…)
9. She joins me in so many adventures and happily sends me
off on the ones that don’t interest her. She’s so good at knots that it makes
it hard for the boys to measure up. (Yes that is a challenge, guys. Go
practice!) She stands supportively by when nice men are helpful enough to hit
me with stuff, and then is happy to hit me with more stuff. (Mostly her lovely
hands.) She brings out the growly top in me but also can make me feel sosoothingly docile. She lets me draw elaborate doodles on her back because she
likes the tickle of it.
10. She gets superpissed when I don’t love myself as much as
she loves me. She is better at love than anybody I’ve ever known-she isn’t
perfect but she never, ever lets me down. She never stops letting me know that
I am the most important thing in the world to her. I would love to be as good
at love as she is.
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