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study for my own tests, but before I went to sleep I

stood naked at myand looked out over the

lake toward his house, toward the litI knew

was his and felt as if his eyes were on me

His kiss was still on my lips when I laid my

head on my pillow

I fell asleep only when I sank into a deeper

place within myself, a cozy place where accidents

never happened, where people never goat angry at

each other, where no one cried and where, if ever

rained, it rained softly, each drop full of sweetness

and light and always afterward, followed by a

rainbow

Two days later, we both began our final exams Harley passed all of his tests Even Uncle Roy

was impressed and could only say "Yeah, sure,"