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I Want To Kiss You

Jan Karon, Jan Karon's 'A Light in the Window', Lion Publishing, 1995, pp. 315, 316. The second book of the series called The Mitford Years.
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Category: General, Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 0670882267
Keywords: workroom, poetic, introspective, tenderness, kiss, Lion Publishing, Karon, Jan Karon

"She invited him to sit on the love seat in her workroom.

'What are you celebrating?' It must be fairly momentous, as she had taken the curlers out of her hair and looked terrific.

'Being alive.'

'You were that sick?'

'It has nothing to do with being sick. We breathe, we run around in our underwear, we go to the store, we dig up the tulip bulbs or plan to, we make soup and pay the electric bill, and we never stop to think--we're alive! This is a gift!

'I wasn't even pondering this. I wasn't being poetic or introspective. It's just that I glanced at the floor--right there--this afternoon and saw how the light came through the window and fell on the wood.

'It bowled me over. It took my breath away. I could hardly bear it.'

He was silent, looking at her.

'There was so much life in the light on the wood, the way it folded itself gently into the grain. That little spot on the floor radiated with tenderness. And then it was gone.'

He couldn't stop looking at her and didn't try.

'Do you know?' she asked softly.

'I know,' he said.

'Not everyone knows,' she said.

'Yea.'

They heard the ticking of her clock in the hallway outside her workroom.

She was perched on the stool at her drawing board. 'Why don't you come and sit here?' he said.

She slid off the stool and came to him and sat down, and he took her hand. They were quiet for a time, in a soft pool of light from the lamp.

It occurred to him that he wanted to kiss her, to hold her close, but he didn't deserve it. He didn't deserve even to be sitting here, a man who couldn't make up his mind from one hour to the next.

She leaned her head to one side, in that way of hers. 'What are you thinking?'

'That I want to kiss you,' he said. 'More than anything.'

She smiled. 'No strings attached?'

'Yes,' he said. 'No strings attached.'

SoAmazing Review: You will not want A Light in the Window to end. It does, but, do not despair, the story goes on. The third book of the Mitford Years Series, These High, Green Hills, awaits.

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