Crossword-Solution: PAIROF 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Used to be hewas my heart's desire. His forthright gaze, his expert hands: I'd lie on the couch with my eyesclosed just thinking about it. Never about the factthat everything changes, that even this, my best passion, would not be immune. No, I would bask on in aneternal daydream of the handsfinding me, the gaze like a windingstair coaxing me down. . . .Until I caught a glimpseof something in the mirror: silly girl in her lingerie, dancing with the furniture--a hot little bund…

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips.