The Real Women in my Life

I hate to single out any one year as a banner year, yet for me it was 1999. In that year I discovered how to see my true self in the mirror, despite the deformities of ill health. I attained wellness subsequently and so became very clear about my priorities. Of women I would not compromise. I did not think I'd find the sort of women, amongst the common people (i.e. those not intelligent enough to have been hounded by IAs), whom I could relate to meaningfully. Sade Adu became my template for a woman--and in my circle in those days she was not rare. But then I was the young one on the ladder, never proven despite the potential to be fulfilled seen by all those who looked at my class. Well, eight years later I've fulfilled a lot of that potential so now I look again in the IA spheres to see if indeed I shall find a lover of quality. I should inform you that since '99 there has only been one true contender for that spot. She's in her fifties now, I believe, and a true intellectual. By now it ought to be obvious to her that I'm in love with her--she knows I wanted her to have my baby, not out of love that time, but because I felt that she was the only woman whom I could allow raise a child of mine. She laughed, probably flattered. So assumptions concerning my love for her would not be out of order. She is a peer of Sade, but older. She's the only one that has ever come close. Now that I'm about to be in the spheres again, I'm paying close attention. Don't want "the one" to come into my life and disappear without me knowing it. But in the IA sphere I am excited by the sorts of women I met then, and the sorts I'm certain to meet now. Anyone else? Nope... cain't think of any woman remotely close.