The point I was trying to make before you interrupted with your inventoryof my personality is that neither of us is going to be able to stay celibate for the next six months." She dropped her eyes. If only he knew that she'd stayed that way all her life. We'll be living in close quarters, " he went on. "We're legally married, and it's only natural that we're going to get it on." Get it on? His bluntness reminded her that none of this meant anything to him emotionally, and contrary to all logic, she'd wanted to hear something romantic. With some pique, she said, "In other words, you expect me to keep house, work for the circus, and 'get it on' with you." He thought it over. "I guess that's about the size of it. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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John Keats, in his "Ode To A Nightingale", wrote: "I sing the song of the lark and the turtle dove, and the wild geese that fly in heaven's height." Keats was a romantic and believed in the power of nature and birds and animals and flowers and all sorts of things. He saw nature as something wonderful, urging us to appreciate it. This idea resonates with you?

Source: Kiss An Angel

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