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"I’ not to be bored"

"You think I’ to hold your interest"

"You hold my interest"

"You need more"

"All I need is love"

"Love?"

"I love you"

"Will you jump-start my car?" Nina said

"What?"

"Will you iveabout?"

"I love you--the phrase Sometimes it’s a request Sometimes it’s an excuse I love you, but I have to leave now I love you, but I have to go to work, catch a plane, play golf It asks questions ‘We’re all right, aren’t we?’ ‘You love o to the party, we’ll visit your et a cat It rarely means, ‘I have an intense affectionate concern for you’ "

I grasped her hands Holding the a break in a power line--it allowed electricity to surge through me

"I have an intense affectionate concern for you," I said

"I have an intense affectionate concern for you, too," she said

She leaned in close and we kissed

"I suppose this is all my fault," she said e finished "I won’t marry you because of my previous experience with the institution You won’t live with hter So we date"

"Girlfriend and boyfriend"

"But since we have no formal commitment, theoretically we’re allowed to see other people, and the freedohtened about Daniel?"

"I wasn’t frightened"

"No?"

"I was jealous"

"Big distinction"

"H lately that when it coh school"

"We’re not kids anyet"

"In high school, it’s impossible to hold our partners to their promises There’s just too much future in front of us and it’s too uncertain Adults--we’re expected to keep our vows"

"What vows are those?"

"To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, forsaking all others until you tell me otherwise That vow"

"Or until you tell me otherwise," I said

Nina extended her hand

"Promise?" she said

"I do"

We shook hands and held hands and spent several h school, I’d want to sit at your table," I said

"I’d save you a place"