Vanessa Shields

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“The Point is You” by Vanessa Shields

Submitted to Contest #278

Saturday, July 28, 1984 My dearest Bertie, I am coming to you now.  That night we were together, Bertie, I believe we linked back to the stars from whence we came. I think we felt the Grand Beginning rumble in our tummies…dancing with the delicious meal we’d shared at Grimley’s On the Oceanside. (I love that you let me feed you a forkful of butter-soaked lobster…that you rolled your blue-sky eyes in taste-ecstasy as you chewed…) Did you know I’d saved three paychecks to afford the meal? I’d wanted to save every cent so I could share a f...

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Writer, mother, chocolate-lover...writing and dreaming and loving in Ontario. www.vanessashields.com