Have you ever fallen head over heels in love from just one look? Have you ever had that fabulous fantasy that the boy or girl you have just caught a glimpse of across the supermarket aisle is the one for you? It leaves you in that awful quandary as towhether or not you should make your move and perhaps find the love of your life or open yourself to the risk of humiliating embarrassment when your well-meaning approach is met with a look of absolute incredulity. This happened to me on a recent holidayin Marrakesh. I was walking with my wife through a garden when I glimpsed this gorgeous vision through the swaying stems of a large bamboo. What poise, what character, what stature, what elegance: I was besotted. Unable to slip away from my wife I manoeuvred our amble to bring us right next to this loveliest of things. Only a low garden fence separated us and now, up close, I could see just how beautiful she was. For me, she had to be a she but now I know better and rather deceptively, she could have been a he. I knew it was pointless talking to her because here we were in a comfortable warm climate with exotic surroundings and surely she would never put up with the dank cold winters back home in the UK. So I just gazed in awe at her dramatic outline, her statuesque grandeur and the sheer perfection that was this vision in fifty shades of grey.
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