I was in Chicago for a few months, setting up a new office. I missed being away from my whole family more than I missed sex.

Other than that, it's been no more than a couple of weeks here or there, and the spell usually gets broken by me.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.