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Part 1
Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 6:19 AM

"You're going to show me a giant pencil?"

Looking through the foggy glass of the car windscreen, she watched the fluctuating scenery of industrial grounds and the suburbs.

"Not just any pencil. The tallest pencil you have ever seen."

She smiled but inside she was laughing. That Faber Castell one that I've seen in the brochure? Well, but I haven't seen the real thing.

"So where is the pencil?"

"Let me just pass this traffic light... and turn left here," - with a distinctly huge pencil on the right - , "and it's a wrong turn..."

"Is that it?" She pointed to the grand pencil, eyes alit.

"Ah, there it is!"

"Can we go closer?"

He pulled up to the side of the factory and they gazed at the pencil together.

"I think I have one at home," she quipped. "Except, smaller."

They laugh.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

And I thank you for showing me that pencil, though in retrospect it wasn't really a giant pencil I needed. All I longed for was a word or two of reassurance and protectiveness.

Like when you told me, "Don't cry." and squeezed me tightly as if you were afraid I would crumble. That is bigger than a giant pencil to me.

It doesn't mean that the giant pencil doesn't matter. And it doesn't mean that I don't want giant pencils in our relationship. I just want you to remember that it's the amount of love you put in that makes the pencil a giant.

End.