I’d told her all about my father; because she asked. A way for us to become closer she’d said. Audrey, my live-in girlfriend, getting lost in sensitivity again.

Lord I loved her. Her long shiny hair, copper threads stealing the sun's color as it's own. Startling green eyes so emerald you'd think they'd been plucked from the mines of the earth. Yes, that's what attracted me; hell, it knocked me stupid. Thank God she looked beyond my own shallow reasons for asking her out and let me know and love her.