C23 TWENTY THREE

The Very Ecstasy Of Love

ROSE

This is the very ecstasy of love.

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

TRAVELING VIA JET was an addicting experience. Commercial flying would likely never live up after this. It would have been perfect had my husband been speaking more than monosyllabic words to me.

Despite his bad mood, as we drove through the streets of Rome on our way to Vatican City