Orly's Farewell

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My beloved,

I'm at the window of our home, admiring the sunset.
The days are becoming shorter, soon, it will be autumn and, as you've explained to me, this makes the sun set farther from us, closer to the Carlton Hotel. Soon it will disappear from my sight.

More than a month has passed since we kissed good-by that morning
Such an ordinary good-by…forever.

We had spoken that same afternoon and you told me that the sea seemed nice and that you'd go surfing later.
I wished you, as always, from the bottom of my heart, to enjoy yourself. I knew that you would have a lot of waves to tell me about when you would come home. I wanted to open the door for you and see you with your surfboard, smiling, dripping and so happy.

You knew true happiness in the sea, we knew, you and I tremendous and true happiness in our life together. The sea felt you, no less than you felt it. You were sometimes angry at it, but the reconciliation was always  swift and complete.

That same day, the sea swelled suddenly for a short while, only to give you a few gifts before you went. The smile on your lips when you returned again and again to the peak said everything.

The sea reacted to you as it did in our wedding day…Remember? The salted surf splashed on our faces when we promised each other for eternity.

My sweet man, everything is filled of you. Our home, that you loved so much, The walls, the pictures, your handwriting. And my heart that you meticulously swamped with the nectar of your love is filled with you.
"You're all mine and I love you deeply in my heart".

 You said that you will always love me. The totality of your love, the privilege to love you in happiness and in so much sorrow, is the most wondrous gift I ever received in my life.

Thank you my love, thank you Guy.