urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kiwihime kiwihime kiwihime 2008-02-27T09:35:28Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kiwihime:767 2007-06-10T08:24:32Z 2008-02-27T09:35:28Z Then all of a sudden, this tear plopped down on the checkerboard. On one of the red squares --boy, I can still see it. She just rubbed it into the board with her finger. I don't know why, but it bothered the hell out of me. So what I did was, I went over and made her move over on the glider so that I could sit down next to her--I practically sat down in her <em>lap,</em> as a matter of fact. Then she <em>really</em> started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over--<em>any</em>where--her eyes, her <em>nose</em>, her forehead, her eyebrows and all, her <em>ears</em>--her whole face except her mouth and all.&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />...one of my favorite excerpts in the book. :D