A first and then a second dollop of warm and delightful br spiced rum, swallowed from a shot glass and poured br down the chute, with only a modicum of inspiration br as a chaser; provided him the counterfeit courage br to face his fears and write for her what she had been br thinking all along. She had loved him when his hair br was much longer than his attention span and his fair br complexion tanned by a tropical sun smelled of coconuts br and passionate hot love… br A third and followed therein short order by a forth dollop br of properly aged and imported, rare and expensive rum, br which when dispatched down the hatch, with an acquired br and refined concentration; he was able to find the breath br to expel the many demons they both had chained and imprisoned br within the padded walls of their combined psyche. She loved him still, br no longer as her lover, but as her life partner in a journey to where br all roads must eventually lead….