When my partner Jeffrey died of AIDS in 1994, one of my greatest comforts was to sort through and organize a drawer full of mere lines drawn on frail paper - birthday cards, holiday greetings, anniversary remembrances, various notes I'd written, a few he'd written me. I'm hoping this collection of the writings I did for and about Jeff will now communicate to a more public audience, mostly by inference, the story of our lives together. I hope they will convey how we grew as a couple, and how through our joys and our struggles we realized an abiding spirit of strength and peace in our relationship. I truly hope my readers will each see something worthy of and possible for their own relationships in ours.