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I didn't meet Natalia until two days later. We met by chance, as we often do. I saw her in the Atrium looking down from the ninth level. All paths within the ship converge at the atrium. I had just come off duty that day. I waved when I saw her, and took the elevator up. I had no idea in what manner my latest adventure of our universal human embrace would evidence itself with her, which had evolved at first out of my daring adventure with Martin into space, exploring the universe, and then had reflected itself onto Jill.
Natalia smiled when she saw me coming out of the elevator. We embraced each other as usual. "I like your choice of partners," she said. She said this with a smile that turned into a grin. "I saw you at the ten o'clock breakfast with Jill Lacayo! You looked great together. A word of caution though, if I may be as bold. When everybody catches on and new trends come out of it, the environment in the ship will become so filled with light that we will all have to wear sunglasses. The captain wouldn't like that. He likes things dark and dim." She began to laugh.
I could have embraced her for this lovely comment, and I did, and the kisses that followed did make the world brighter indeed. She could have been cruel. She could have said, I've seen you with your new lover, or other woman, or whatever. But she didn't. She didn't say these things. I knew this wasn't by accident. She always took great care in choosing her words when matters were important. This time her words reflected what I, too, felt deep in my heart and soul, that nothing had taken place that was in any way abnormal or extraordinary, so that it would be excluding her.
"Your mental horizon has grown to include another dimension," she said moments later. "Nothing of value has become lost. To the contrary; something that we've come to know as being of great vale has become expanded!"
Oh boy! How I loved her for this! She must have felt the truth of it, too.
"You're great!" I replied and gave her another long drawn out kiss, and this time I hoped that the captain would plainly see us.
"I'm glad for you," said Natalia after the kiss, "and I'm proud of you. What makes people special to me is this wonderful ambition we human beings have to improve our world, to find ways to improve our life, to broaden our base of living. That's what I have always valued. That's why I am on this ship. That's what I admire in you. I find it terribly sad when people let their dreams stop! Humanity can't afford that. Humanity nearly died when it stopped living. That's why our world had been in such great danger and still is to some degree. I think what it is happening here may be the answer that this ship was built for. It carries an example now that, when follow up, could breathe new life back into humanity. And if I'm not mistaken, you had started this fight for a brighter world already on Earth. Our ship would never have been built had there been no one like you with great, but realizable dreams and the courage to be chasing after them. I would even say that if it were not for grand dreams and courageous dreamers, humanity would have died out irreparably. That's why I love you, and always have, and always will, you beautiful man." She said this and grinned and offered a kiss at the end.
"Oh heavenly days!" I said to myself after our embrace ended. Her words were music to my ears. To say that I grinned in reply would be a gross understatement.
"Meeting Jill changed my life. It made it brighter. I think it made yours brighter too. Wherever love blossoms the world becomes brighter," I said. I couldn't help smile.
"That must have been some event to have changed your life," said Natalia.
"Oh it was, Natalia, it was," I replied happily. "It was one those rare things that fairy tales are made of. It was like magic. I began with a smile. But behind that smile unfolded a beautiful mind and a kind and gentle soul. They shone like a light. It took but a fraction of a moment to be touched by that light. Wow! I said to myself. There actually seemed to be somebody home. I knocked at the door and said hallo. What followed really did change my life, Natalia. It made it so much richer, a great deal richer, and that won't go away again."
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