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She glanced back toat a woman the way you were at me anyway? You're so different froining can be as significant as touching Both of them have been forbidden towhen I look at your beauty and knohat I knoill eventually coazing atthat you think to even look at a woman you're not married to is a sin?"

I nodded, "Jesus laid it out very clearly that we are accountable for the thoughts of our minds as much as we are the actions which we commit with our hands He even went as far to say that to hate someone was the same as if to murder them"

"I have a question You don't have to answer it if you don't want to"

"Ask away" I said obligingly

"You've never been with a woman physically before have you?"

"No"

"What about thinking?"

"I've failed there et to me Overwhelm would be a better word for it" I ad as she said, "I have another question"

Laughing I said, "Go ahead"

She looked up and gestured between us, "Are we……" She trailed off looking unco in for her

She nodded

"The act of h the years in terard what the Holy Scripture has to say of it In the beginning of creation iven a wo coiven me you Quite simply put you are my woman and I will have relation with no other than you, as it is good for man to have but one wife You will bear my name, even as you bear my children and your affection will be towards me I will care for you, protect you, and love you all the days of my life, even as Christ loves and cares for the church Does that answer your question?"

"Yes" Maria said sounding shaken

"Shall we then?" I said indicating the open road ahead of us with a flourish of one hand

We started walking again and solanced down at our joined hands and then over to Maria who said, "I think I' your woman"