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On our way back into the White House, it was eerily quiet "I’ll never stop feeling awed as I walk around this house," I said
"It’s a privilege not to be taken lightly"
"You kno they say if these walls could speak? These walls actually do Every piece of art on the walls Every relic"
We continued in silence
The usual bustle of the day had calmed down, but it was still in the very air The electric unfolding of history within these walls There were births and deaths, celebrations anddoard, humble and charis red-carpeted hall
Matt eyed the hall, his gaze war took seventeen years to coton conceived the idea of it, but he never had a chance tomore
"It nearly burned in the War of 1812, when the British invaded the capital Middle of the night, eneh the s, set the attic on fire, and the flah the floor, then the main floor crashed into the basement Look at it now" He winked "Yeah, that’s Aer than ever" He chucked hed, and blushed all over, and nodded
"The portrait of Washington in the Oval? The soldiers looted the house, but the first lady at the time, Dolly Madison, cracked the fra your portrait"
"I want one made of you"
"Matthew!"
"I mean it," he said, then he tookat our feet and dropping to fall asleep by the time what part of me he wanted to imotiations for the last couple of days I, too, have stayed busy, but then I wait for night, wondering if Matt rap up the day early or not--he’s been working so hard that the White House press office is always abuzz with infor to the White House Matt is taking the alphabet caleword As promised
There are presidents and there are presidents--but we haven’t had one like this one in a long, long while And exactly like this one? Not ever
I’ve never been so busy in my life either, but as I ith my muscles sore from the day I ache for hi and whether I’ll fall asleep before he reaches hts, or if I’ll be ahen he walks into le inch of ain
To out, a fundraiser for Clean Water Across the Nation--with several celebrities in attendance Though it’s been three days since we made love, I’ve already realized that Matt htly visit Everybeen spooned at night and the scent of hi a walk outside to clear my head when his best friend from Harvard, Beckett, arrived