"You're one of my ten favourite people."
Someone said this to me today. And not just anybody. Nope, it was Marietta, my ex-best-female-friend and ex-girlfriend from five years ago whom I never stopped being fascinated with (read this and this, for example). The fact that she was my Ex and that I had other girlfriends and she had a boyfriend who knew me from before always kept us from becoming actual friends again in the years before. Now, I'm free and she's free and we're both looking for love and we know we won't find it with each other so we can just go back to having a great time again. And she is such a great person. She can get on my nerves enormously sometimes, but I love her dearly nevertheless. And there we sat by the Rhine today, talking about life, love, sex and the universe and then she starts explaining how there are so few people left that she really likes. And then she actually said the exact words written above this posting, in English as well. And later on she also said some other nice things to me. I love this. I had always hoped we could be friends again some day, real friends, not just people spending time together on parties occasionally. And now I can see it happening before my eyes. Sometimes life is good.