
The girl in the dream was young but so was I—both legs, hair. She wasn't someone I've ever known. We'd been staying someplace warm as friends and on this, our last day together, she was putting out signals so obvious that even I, notably dense about such things, couldn't ignore them. She was on my right side. We were seated. She pressed herself against me. I reciprocated. We talked, laughed. Our faces drew close. We kissed. (I haven't kissed anyone for five years, when I had a brief relationship with a woman, and I haven't had sex successfully in this century. I have never had a girlfriend.) The kisses became long and open mouthed, both tongues fully articulating. It felt very real and detailed. Her breathing became more intense. Her hot breaths felt pleasant on my neck and face. She writhed against me.

I don't assign great meaning to dreams, as others do. They're neurological events that are triggered by and reflect what may be going on in a person's life, but the known instances of them revealing any great solutions are rare and the ones of them predicting the future are even rarer and don't hold up. You'll hear, at times, about a person having a dream that the plane to be taken the next day crashes. The person doesn't get on the flight because of this and, sure enough, the plane crashes. But scratch below the surface and you'll find that that person had great anxiety about flying. And, of course, many thousands of people have identical dreams, get on the planes anyway, and the flight lands safely.
If my dream last night predicted a future, it sure isn't mine. Unless, that is, a fountain of youth has been discovered and I have access to it.
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