Week 12: Man is the Animal that Laughs

She has a surprise for him, a gift only she could imagine he would cherish. As they spent the last two months apart, the love they had for each other was now the invisible rope that connected them the 3,000 miles apart. On the day they reconnected, they spent every waking moment together. At breakfast they sat hand in hand, on the walk to the park he walked closest to the street while keeping her close, and at night there was an unbelievable sense of passion they shared while in bed.

 The long weekend was finally over, they had to say their good byes and reconnect that invisible love rope. But before he walked onto that airplane, he was surprised by her gift... the gift she knew only he would love. The teddy bear was with him the entire plane ride home, they fell asleep together... he imagined it was his love he just left.

 On nights he was most lonesome, the bear was all he had to keep him company, the bear was the only love he felt from his girl friend, and before he knew it the bear was returning the hug.

“The bears alive!” he thought at first, it startled him until he rethought what was happening. The bear was a symbol of his girl friend’s love and as he cherished the bear, he was not only instilling his own love into this inanimate object, but feeling the love his distant girl friend wanted him to be aware of.

To this day he still has the bear and although it does not come alive when he holds it, he still knows that the love inside it is stronger than ever.