That Bena Boy

Talking Hearts cards prompt: What's a lie you told or a secret you kept from your parents?

John: I never told my folks about stealing their pickup. Never.

Denise: I never told my mother when I started dating you John and never told her that you were a Bena boy. As a young teen my mom warned me about you. She told me and my sister to stay away from the Bena boys.

Thankfully when we were engaged, and I told her where you grew up, she said that she could see how happy you make me, so the Bena boy I am with now is okay with her!

Talking Hearts cards prompt: What's something you don't miss about being single?

John: Laundry!

Denise: You answered that way too quickly. I'm not sure about this one. I haven't been single for long. One year, and then nine months between husbands. It probably wasn't enough time to notice what I didn't like about being single.

I know I never liked dating. So, I will say dating, even though I didn't do much of that between husbands, it was more the whole idea of it.

Talking Hearts cards prompt: How did you meet one of your closest friends?

John: When we moved to Bena, when I was eleven, I got into a fight at school in Cass Lake and immediately got my friend group from Bena. (aka: The Bena boys)

Denise: My best friends as a young person came from those who were the tough ones in town. The fighters, and the partiers. The guys and gals that others were afraid of.

Then later it was friends from recovery. Friends who became sisters. And there are my friends from my Cancer support group. My friends from a college play have stuck with me since then, 'The Rez Sisters' by Thompson Highway. Lifelong friends that were my sister Carrie's friends.

John: I agree with recovery friends, too.

Talking Hearts cards prompt: When do you have a hard time asking for help?

John: Always!

Denise: It is always for me too, except with you!

John: No shit! Well, I can say that about you too, as I don't have a hard time asking for help from you either.

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Denise: Okay John, remember when I said 1 card is not enough, well, now 2 cards are not enough either. Unless I add a bit of general information in a poem about relationships?

John: Yes, do that!

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Relationships

are sometime ships

passing

I'm not gassing

you. Really

Clearly

They can be silly

frilly

willy nilly

And yet

I'll bet

neither of us

would want to make a fuss

about anything much to do

with how we do me and you

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Relationships

Even the bad clips.

Looking back

and seeing a lack

totally

is really

over the moon.

Never one to swoon.

So, there you go

home is where... - no?

It only makes sense

Perfect is not my defense!

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Love like lunatics

listen, love, learn,

laugh, leave life

large, like loudly!

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Lucky little lion

lying loose

laboring like

lizard looking

left. Leaving

letter L.

Limiting loss

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Love

learn love

love laughter

love life

light like lamp

loud, lucky, lazily

laying letters

learning life lessons

Living, loving, looking

like love lifes lessons

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Leaving love

loose looking lover

libel like lost

life lessons lost

like loser

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Bena boy

bad boy

bought bright

beautiful bikes

found fights

ran robberies

married Marcene

two times

fathered four

cherished children

regained recovery

married me

favored family

love laughter

lively life

together twenty-six

years. Yes!

He's happiest

She's satiated, so satisfied

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