If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

What do you miss most she asked as we drove onto the 60.
The belly aches from laughter. 

That's what I always miss when I'm not at home--
the aching of happiness. 
the desperation for air. 
the sound of sheer bliss and the tears that accompany. 

I haven't laughed this hard for so long. It's been a  minimum of four months because in January I had a laughing belly ache. Four months is a long time, right? Anyway, they were four  l o n g  months. 
Good ones, but long ones. 



And the aches are refreshing.