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Some easy tests Start with this one: When she’s there, do you feel well? But when she’s absent you feel unwell? Not ill exactly, but washed with anxiety? I do. Are you on the same wavelength When you do the crossword In the paper, getting tricky clues At precisely the same instant, Mental vibes built up over years? You can sense the moment coming. I do. And if you happen to pass In the kitchen do you pause And, without a word give Her a little nuzzle between The shoulder blades, An impulse of a moment, Inconsequential, yet celebrating Togetherness of a lifetime? I do. Then there are those evenings By the fire that would be infinitely Boring if she was not there Reading in the other chair. Do you enjoy things differently When you’re together? I do. If you have to get out in the night, Do you wait for her hand To welcome when you get back in So you to can get to sleep again Without the tossing and turning That happens when you’re alone? I do. There are many more similar But if you’ve passed the ones so far Try this for bonus points: When you see some glamour girl On television or perhaps a movie star And you look away towards The one you married sixty years before, Do you sigh that she’s gone grey Or do you say, ‘When you were twenty You were more beautiful than any And you still are, what’s more!’ I do.
