I was truly sad to learn of the closing of “The Greenies” today! I remember how you took me there and showed me around…and how we marveled at it together. I still remember laying on the bed with you and was SO pleased when I found out you bought some of the furniture. It was quite amazing to me and I guess what intrigued me even more was that even though you were quite familiar with it, it STILL amazed YOU! I remember TP’ing up to the little box in the sky…and kissing you there…and I remember dancing on the stereo and hoping that you were watching me and were pleased. There are SO many places you have taken me and showed me and helped me to live YOUR memories as we create new ones together.

I think of Nexus Prime and STILL wish I could have been with you in those early days….often thinking that it might have saved us both much heartache and pain. I can imagine you in the “bowels” of Nexus Prime dressing and editing your avi….alone. I wonder how long you wandered in “our” new world alone…and marvel to think that I was wandering alone as well…all the time…we were looking for each other! I wish I could have seen SL through your eyes as a newbie and see the wonder and amazement I have shared with you so many times now.

I once again have to think of Helsing…and the ship where we first made love. I still remember exploring the island and hoping that you were secretly watching me. I LONGED for you even then….could FEEL your eyes burning a hole in me. I remember walking along the bridge and telling you that we would make new memories…and feeling your soft lips on mine as I trembled at our first kiss. I remember feeling warm all over and a little afraid as we walked up to the treehouse wondering if that was just a momentary lapse in your judgement or if you would kiss me again…and then feeling my heart race as you grabbed me again and kissed me, harder and longer this time! I still remember leaving you and feeling almost intoxicated at the thought of being with you…and it was there the next day that you first told me you loved me. And as we once again consumated our relationship I remember you telling me to yell it across the island. You wanted EVERYONE to know that what had been…now was not….and what was now…always had been.

I remember moving to Jenner and the surprise of seeing “our” new home, not one that you had shared with anyone else, but OURS. I remember it warm and dark and close and in those first few days it was a haven for the love we shared and I watched you build Jenner piece by piece and create in it the love we shared. I remember walking along the shoreline and making love on the rocks. And how could I forget the pool of “chocolate” you made for me for our first anniversary together!

And of course, I still have to smile as I think of the very FIRST place I visited in SL upon my return…it was YOUR land. IT WAS YOURS! I did not know your name and I had never seen you before, but I think I was looking for you even then, love! I remember sitting in my sister’s house and feeling terribly comfortable. Perhaps I could feel YOU there. It may have been the first time in my life that I in someway, touched “the other”…and it began to heal my soul at that point in time.

All of these places are gone now. But what remains is our love. Many places will come and go…and I have no doubt that many of the places that I cherish and hold dear today will someday be only memories, but one thing will always remain…and that will be our love. Soon, love…we will cross that boundary from VL to RL and we will have OUR home and we will share OUR love in it…and will begin to make memories again…it will be our new “Jenner”…and we will build it together, love. I can’t wait!

Until then….

Forever your adoring and loving partner…D