Harris Avenue (Pt. 1 of 2) (standard:romance, 1201 words)
Author: Chris Michlewicz	Added: May 13 2002	Views/Reads: 3588/2218	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A man is in love with a girl he has never talked to. She is a mystery that Darren Aucoin intends to solve.

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Every man notices her obvious beauty as she makes her way down the
peaceful street.  Single men and married men alike will gawk without 
consideration of who may be standing next to them.  Women notice Miss 
Grace as well, not with a hateful gaze, but with admiration for the 
delightful way she carries herself.  Not many women can get away with 
such beauty while gaining the acceptance of others, but somehow Miss 
Grace does it with a wonderful attitude.  Though no one, as far as 
Darren knows, has talked to the woman, she still carries with her 
faithful devotees of her...well, grace. 

It is not to say that she is the perfect woman, it's just that Darren
thinks she is.  On boring days, he envisions them happily married in a 
white house with a light blue trim.  It's a place somewhere in the 
country, even Darren himself is not sure where, surrounded by nothing 
but sprawling flat land. 

For never having met her, Darren feels that he knows her better than
anyone else in town.  She has a familiar light to her that makes 
everyone who meets (sees) her feel as if they've known her for years, a 
history that starts and ends with the one smile she bestows upon that 
person. 

Darren often gets the feeling that she is an angel, but dismisses it
with the reasoning he grew up on.  He hopes she is not an angel because 
that means there is no possibility of being with her, unless it is on a 
purely spiritual level in a life after death.  He doesn't want to wait 
until death to be with her.  It is unfair to ask a man in love to wait 
for his partner that long, impossible to hold out for the prize that 
she is, even if it is for love. 

He will try to approach her despite what his father instilled in his
memory.  A lady such as this deserves a man that will treat her with 
everything she needs.  Darren thinks he deserves her, too, for he has 
never been with a woman that makes his heart sing by a mere fleeting 
glimpse.  His greeting will be carefully planned, not too strong, not 
too reserved.  Just right.  He wants to find out what her first name 
is, but most of all he wants to find out what is in the worn brown 
paper bag. 


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