Short women make a very good case for intelligent design.
[Just going to snuggle this arm in like it belongs there, no big deal Ginny. But he'll dodge just what's feeling so decidedly tolerable about being in his thirties in favour of guiding her toward the gift table.]
Rather than enlightening you about your present, why don't you open it? Big one in the corner.
[Big big. A couple of feet square. It looks a bit like a monolith compared to all the cute little bags and boxes which probably contain jewellery or perfume. He's wrapped it in red and gold paper, with the kind of precise neatness that could mark it out as being his gift even without the doctor's handwriting on the label: which just says saw this and thought of you.]
she will get her gift if it takes me 60 years (which it may)
[Just going to snuggle this arm in like it belongs there, no big deal Ginny. But he'll dodge just what's feeling so decidedly tolerable about being in his thirties in favour of guiding her toward the gift table.]
Rather than enlightening you about your present, why don't you open it? Big one in the corner.
[Big big. A couple of feet square. It looks a bit like a monolith compared to all the cute little bags and boxes which probably contain jewellery or perfume. He's wrapped it in red and gold paper, with the kind of precise neatness that could mark it out as being his gift even without the doctor's handwriting on the label: which just says saw this and thought of you.]