LGB

Montreal

June 6, 1919

My Sweetest Elizabeth,

I had a dream last night about us. I think it was triggered my visit to sail the boat with father and Jack. Watching my father, who I resemble in many ways, must have gotten into my subconscious, because in my dream I was about his age with hair more gray than brown and smile lines revealing how beautiful my life had been. I was standing along a pond with a grown Jack by my side and a little boy sailing the boat. He was so much of our son Jack, and I could see you in the blue of his eyes. He was giggling just as Jack use to and hugging my legs like Jack as well. I was so content and happy and the dream made me smile. We were apparently waiting for you because Jack announced. "there they are finally…I am sooo hungry". I turned to look in the direction he was pointing and there you were with two young ladies and a little girl.

One of the young ladies went straight to Jack and he gave her a brief, but loving kiss and the little boy went to hug his mother. And the other young woman came to me and kissed my cheek and said, "hello Papa, did we take too long?" My daughter, I would have known it even if she hadn't called me Papa. She had long chestnut hair with a hint of red and your sweet smile and my dimples and hazel eyes. And the little girl was clearly her daughter. I had a grandson and a granddaughter and perhaps more…..

You came to me for a kiss, and I pulled you to me and breathed you in. The years had been good to you my love. Even with gray hair and a few smile lines of your own, you were beautiful. I could still see that young woman who had "preferred reading books more than people" … the intelligent woman with a bit of sass that I knew could be "the one" from that moment. And as always, when you are beside me, my world measurably shifted with your presence and I felt that overwhelming combination of contentment and excitement, two emotions that should conflict and yet define mine when you are there. And as I touched you lips with mine, I tasted the sweetness and felt the yearning.

I woke up with you in my arms this morning and Jack had already joined us…. And I felt truly blessed. Whatever life has in store for us I know that I am with the one that I was meant to be with, and we have so many possibilities ahead of us. I feel so exquisitely happy with you and Jack. And if our life 30 years from now turns out even half as well as what I felt in my dream, then I will truly have been the richest man alive.

Yours forever,

Lucas

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