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Show 333 tificate, and Amelia began to laugh, looked at it and laughed. "You two! Oh god, you hardshelled atheists! Do you know what that judge's name is? Parsons!" I didn't think it was so funny. A judge by any other name would have plunged us into water just as deep. Though actually, I didn't yet believe we were married. It began to rain while we were in tne restaurant and in tne dark we ran through it to Amelia's car. Vihile Ben drove south the wind came up stronger and the rain increased, the Cuter Drive running water like a river, the car swaying in the wind like a ship in a gale, in deep waters, plastered with sheets of rain, but us rolling onward, Ben taking us onward, dry and happy within the car. When would I believe it? Up the stairs to our place, those fateful stairs, with Ben W whistling Mendelssohn's wedding march for Carrie's ears. With our good friends we drank champagne and talked, and tuen they left and Kite and I were alone for the first time as man and wife. It was strange. We had made a public commitment, we would in many appearances go as the world went, but in private we were each other's, privately we were a law unto ourselves, for better or For worse. And so we took off our clothes and kissed one another. She laughed, remembering me na.ced on the stairs, but when she gave herself into OutafoUY EAtVt. my arms taking me in hers, we were both mutely thankful for that fall^ Thankful with a strange savored ceremoniousness, we made love. Then I believed. Afterwards in the fri.endly dark she layAher head on my shoulder ^wfcw her leg across mine and it came to :ne then that in our sex we were like two halves f. • together to make one wnole. Afterwards we separated into once more wholes, but that other whole ..as greater, containing the future. Because es she was my most secret dream of all, she was the other in my dream of ompleteness. In the dark I smiled: the next day was Thanksgiving and we |
