Jack Engelhard

I remember once when I was young, and I was coming back from some place, a movie or something. I was on the subway and there was a girl sitting across from me and she was wearing this dress that was bottoned queer up right to here, she was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. And I was shy then, so when she would look at me I would look away, then afterwards when I would look back she would look away. Then I got to where I was gonna get off, and got off, the doors closed, and as the train was pulling away she looked right at me and gave me the most incredible smile. It was awful, I wanted to tear the doors open. And I went back every night, same time, for two weeks, but she never showed up. That was 30 years ago and I don't think that theres a day that goes by that I don't think about her, I don't want that to happen again. Just one dance?

That's a reflex answer because you view the question as hypothetical. But let's say that there was real money backing it up. I'm not kidding. A million dollars. The night would come and go but the money could last a lifetime. Think of it. A million dollars. A lifetime of security… for one night. Don't answer right away. Just consider it; seriously?

Well then you've proved your point. There are limits to what money can buy. It's late, and I hate to admit it, but I have meetings in the morning. May I have one dance? With your permission.

Understood. I wouldn't part with her either. Good night.

Even a common ordinary brick wants to be something more than it is - wants to be something better than it is. And that is what we must be... See you on Friday.

We met in the high school, David was a senior and I was a freshman. On Wednesdays after glee club he would drive me and my best friend home from school. I used to watch him in the rear view mirror, I fell in love with his eyes and when I turned nineteen he proposed to me on the pier on Paradise Cove. Our parents were against it, they said we were too young, we really didn't know each other. David said "A life without risk is no life at all" so we eloped.

we had our differences, he used to take his clothes off and leave them on the floor it made me crazy. We never had much money so David would show me architecture that moved him but sometimes I'd have to ask "why are we looking at a stupid car wash? "And he'd just say "no, not stupid, don't just use your eyes: he made me look at things differently

Someone once said, if you want something very badly, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with. I knew one thing, I was David's to begin with, and he was mine.