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8pm 12.5.11
Scene: a loft in Gallery Row, downtown Los Angeles
Looking back, I’m not sure how we got here but there we were. It was one thing after another. A domino of passion followed by pain followed by more passion. Rinse and repeat.
The suited gent was on a destructive tangent. He kept countering his actions. One minute he was giving me the heavy about getting flowers from a paramour I dated years ago, the next minute he was telling me he wasn’t ready to be involved in a relationship.
“Why can’t you just be honest with me? Are you just that incapable of doing that for anyone including yourself?”
“I’ve been more honest with you than any of them.” he told me.
“Why?”
“Because you see the man behind the curtain.”
I think about the morning I saw him in the windowpane. He was completely right.
You could cut the silence like a thick fog. He walked upstairs to his room. I picked up my keys and grabbed my purse. I don’t know why he holds back so much. I don’t know why I do either. But he’s right. I’m right. And maybe that’s why I was attracted to him in the first place.
From one magician to another- it’s difficult living in both worlds magical and real sometimes.