I remember a dream from years ago. It was not my usual nightmare of trying to outrun a tidal wave or forgetting how to use my phone in an emergency or being chased by evil men who wanted to hurt me. This was a dream about love.

In my dream a young woman I didn’t know asked me to make love with her. It was her first time. In my dream I was also young, though with some familiarity of the process, and I wanted her experience to be supreme, for the first time is the bell that rings in our hearts...