Before I ever start The Story I get hung up on the opening line. There's a hundred or so listed the 'Net and I always think of Holden C's "if you really want to hear about it" or Orwell's " . . . . the clock struck 13". My hang-up isn't the search for catchy, it's just where to begin. I always go to the point that I gave up on the reality that I could love if true love meant I'd never be attracted to or tempted by another woman, ergo there's no such thing as true love. It is also the excuse I use to explain my lack of fidelity and trashing the vows - I was simply still looking for her. But it really starts way before then, the infatuation, the attraction, the fixation on females, emphasis on the plural. The thing is, who really cares about that? It's back story, TMI, misleading about the miracle of not just finding her but lucid enough to know it and to contribute heavily to making life with her happen in spite of odds of the insurmountable variety. She was just not the typical go-home-and-tell-spouse-it's-over kinda gal. And we were both "if-we-ever-got-free-we-would-never-get-hooked-again" devotees. See how that doesn't sound consistent? I was essentially a cad, a horndog, a gigolo starting during my sandbox era and she is a sweet, care-giving, love-actuated gal but we were both affection-deprived. Maybe that's the starting point - - Whenever two people who have wandering eyes happen to wander into the same place, love happens. Too general, too easily rebutted, there has to be a better beginning. How about - - When the universe decides two separate accumulations of million year old carbon come within a certain distance of each other, the attraction defies physics and enculturation to start a new chain reaction that we call kismet. Phew! pretty sterile. Maybe - - - God decided to make these two star-struck lovers engage in the ritual of love everlasting. There's some truth and more in each of these word choices and I guess I'm still stuck at the starting line until I get settled on one or maybe another that I haven't thought of yet. It's a really great story. Promise.