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Johnnie loved me and wanted me. But the only love I was giving him was the pure kind. It was weeks before we even kissed for the first time.

Against my folks' wishes, we'd been seeing each other for short rides in the truck. The rides were tame enough- mostly we talked. But by the time the first crackling of spring came around, we both knew we were hopelessly in love. Yet even then we did nothing much but talk, and maybe neck a little. "It's so crazy", I told him once.   "I ALWAYS imagined I would probably end up marrying a minister or somebody like that.   Somebody with no vices. You know". "And you fall for a lumber jockey". "Who drinks far too much". "And smokes too much". "And", I was ticking off the items on my fingers, "swears too much and goes out with the boys, whoever they are, too much, and who never goes to church and won't even listen when I try to persuade him to come back to the fold". He examined his nails carefully. "I could walk out the door".