To young to know.....a love story of New york He was too young for me. I should have just walked away. But God is no so kind to divorcees close to the age of forty with a lot of dissolutionment with urban life. My husband cheated on me with his secretary. Tell me you haven't heard that before. I met him at a family get together. a BBQ with awful food and cheap wine. it was his youth I think it glowed like freedom. All the emotions yet to happen. not all those that had already been. He dumped his girlfriend when he saw me. I don't know why she was pretty and perky and so very young. not like me at all. He caught me looking at him but I did not release my gaze. That was cruel he was a just a boy I found out later he was Twenty two he gave me all I needed at that time. All the things my rat bastard husband had never given to me. I admit I used him for his beauty and his life that shone from him. But I did not know I was falling in love with him. he stripped me with his eyes or smile. I could not wait to undress for him. My mother so wise said let him go honey. but I didn't. He moved in to my urban nest. the few hundred square feet that was mine where the world ended. I was miffed he did not have a job like I did. that he sat around playing Nintendo all day. But then he kissed me and said I love you baby. and I melted for him. I got angry when he was drinking with his friends. in my apartment when i got home from a hard day and I threw him out. I told him he was never going to be what I needed he was too young. He moved into his buddy's place. and called nme ten times a night Then I saw him again it was in the local delli I moved a can of caviar and he was buying steaks on the other side. I took him home to my place undressed as usual he would not wear his condom. He said I want you to have our baby. I wish he had just fucked me. All of a sudden I saw his vulnerability his youth his inexperience. I knew it was a trap for him. A trap I could not set. so I opened the cage the door left wide open. and he flew out into the wild rarified air above the mountains. a year later The night was cold snowfall had covered the old tired grey streets of new York. I was with a group of old friends. Still single in the resteraunt where we aways met. he was walking by and used his sweet warm breath to melt the ice from the window. he was looking at me. I stopped mid sentence. I thought I saw tears in his eyes. but they might have been in mine. as the frost regained control and he walked away into the winter night