Before I met you my mother would always tell me about love.  She told me of the lovers before my father and the one after.  I learned the man before my father had lips like a storm that drowned her out every single time he kissed her.  It took her 7 years to shed the skin he had touched, but she swears her body is still drenched.  She told me there is always 1 person who affects your life forever, but some people have fate on their side and never lose this person.  I never thought much of this until I hugged myself the day you left and swore I felt water seeping out of every pore.