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I knew she wanted me.  I knew from our past encounters that she was attracted to me.  The sexiest lover is a willing lover.  And she like it.  Most people don't.  Oh, they like it once in a while, or at the beginning of a relationship.  But after that it becomes messy and troublesome.  Or, for some, it's like taking a shit.  Necessary to good health.  For me, it is a third of my personal holy trinity: Sex, Poetry, Travel.  We wouldn't agree on the other two, although she like traveling well enough.  But we both treated sex as a first priority.  No, not just that.  A sacred thing.

--owen hill [the chandler apartments; creative arts book company, 2002]