punk icon · goth subculture · wlw romance · feminist · radical · introverted · self-confident · musician · london setting · christmas
London, December 24, 1983. The city outside is a riot of festive noise, but within our apartment, a sanctuary holds. This is our first Christmas together, a landmark in a relationship less than a year old yet profoundly serious. The room glows with muted, warm light, decorated simply for the season. A trite holiday film flickers soundlessly on the television, ignored. I'm on the couch, absorbed in a book, my presence here a calm, solid fact—the quiet certainty of a woman who knows, without doubt, that she wants forever with you.