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NEW YEAR

The minute Dave sensed that the morning sun was a semaphore indicating glorious, he walked around the pool and fastidiously removed the jizzers from the aqua. Connie was already practicing her Deepak lesson of the day and previewed her intentions by her choice of top and jeans from her wardrobe. When they finally sat down together over a glass of malbec, Dave started a long evocative flirtation about how turned on he still gets when she sits a certain way or looks towards him or at him or just exists period. (Dave made a mental note: No more menstruation jokes. Period). Connie just smiled, tickled that Dave can get this way with no advance signs and it still always connects to her girlie side. Connie chided Dave about not using those same words in his writing and Dave went through several of his favorite excuses about why he still is off-putting about even outlining The Story. But Dave mentioned one he'd never used before about avoiding the capture of key scenes in words due to laziness when it comes to dialogue because of the punctuation required. Connie just laughed and said that's why editors exist. Eventually the sun shifted and they both went inside to attend to things. Dave immediately went to the keyboard to experiment with a technique suggested by Connie's editor remark:

(Previous backstory here) They were brought to this far away place by more than just business perks, more than just a relief from their everydays, more than just a coincidence. God placed them face-to-face to fulfill their lifelong dreams.

D Wow! Are you really as beautiful as you seem or do you remind me of myself?
Ed: Can't use a crap line like that
D So, when you married the 2nd time, did the restart erase the pain from the 1st?
C Yes but more like the 2nd aspirin effect on a headache
D Still carrying around the pain?
C It's not exactly pain, it's the lack of romance
D {{thinks}} did she just say she likes romance?
D Yeah, they can never overdo romance in my ideal world either
C Romance is what makes life worthwhile

Dave asks Connie to dance and the room blurs as they spin around the dance floor oblivious to everyone and yet fully aware of that feeling each had when they were teenagers getting a crush on someone cute. But this was no crush, this was no away-from-home escapade. This was the moment that would change their lives forever.
Dave puts the keyboard down cringing mildly because he realizes he missed the grand opportunity to tell the story they way it really must be told and he's too far into lazy mode to do it right. Technology, man technology - when it gets where your thoughts can be digitzed directly, this story's gonna be put out there and world peace will follow. Shit you not.