After what seemed like an eternity I finally got over my nerves and walked into the Bette Porter Gallery.  It was more spectacular in daylight than it was Saturday night.  I walked and looked around at the art for a little while when the same early-20’s man came up to me and asked if he could help me.  I just said I there to see Bette and he just told me to follow him back to the offices.  I was amazed when I stepped into the office area; it seemed to be as full of art as the gallery was.  He walked over to what I assumed to be his desk, picked up the phone and must have called into Bette’s office.  ‘Bette I have a woman out here looking for you.’  ‘No, I didn’t get her name,’ at that point he turned to me and asked for my name.  ‘Bette, she said her name is Tina Kennard.’  ‘Okay, I’ll send her right in.’ Then he guided me through the door and into this large spacious office with a wall covered in bookshelves and a desk right in front of them with the most amazingly beautiful woman sitting at it.  I walked closer to her desk and at that moment she then looked up from whatever she was working on and smiled at me, she smiled at me!  I think I smiled back but I was just so happy standing there with Bette smiling at me I can’t even remember.

Then she spoke and that wonderful sensuous voice came out, “Hi Tina, I think I have something here that belongs to you”, and she stood up, walked around the desk and came towards me, took the earring out of the envelope that she was holding then said “I could have sworn I watched you put this back on.”  I took it from her hand, she held onto mine and then it happened; she leaned forward and very gently kissed me.  Most surprising to me though was not that she kissed me but that I kissed her back.  I opened my eyes and looked into the deep chocolate depths of hers and it was as if my whole life was coming together like it should be.  It felt so good, so right.  I think I have found my soul mate and it doesn’t even matter that this is only the second time that I have seen her, or that she is a woman; although at this present moment I am kind of freaked out that I am having these feelings so strongly for a person that I have just known for a few days.  I have never felt anything close to this before; I think I am in love.