Navarre
Like Tom , Navarre was important to me. Unlike Tom, I don't have an obit for him telling me he no longer can be harmed by the words of a woman who once knew him, so Navarre is not his real name. It comes from the movie Ladyhawke and was chosen years ago because his French was better than mine, because we were "always together, always apart" for some years, because it was daytime where I was and nighttime where he was. It was chosen because he was an elegant, well mannered man and because I dreamed of him as a black wolf or a shark or a cold blooded alligator warming itself in the light of my sunny disposition. He was substantially older than I, so in my thirties while divorcing a man I finally admitted to myself saw me as fat and ugly and while the world around me treated me the same after many years of the world telling me I was gorgeous, I got to feel like a pretty young thing in the eyes of my love interest. He had a failing business in part because of American politi...