"Summer is like seasonal spring unfolding into fullest bloom. It is a time when butterflies invade the stomach and the air is filled with romantic rebellion and foolish notion of breaking rules. Summer days for young lovers are days of daring do; days when we stand apart from our elders and follow our first instinct, however wrong. In every girls' life, there is a young man and a summer where it started where the first contact with one's sexual feelings began to blossom in earnest. In every boy's life, the summer never ends until the day they die or their eyesight fails them!
I have always felt that spring carries with it a package that only a summer can unwrap. The warm weather when walking down a country lane with a beautiful partner opens the woman's heart to all possibilities and closes the man's mind to none.
Imagine what it would be like to live in a world of summer all year round and remain forever young: summers where the first blush of a maiden's sweet face brings forth the first flush of daring do in the wild heather of the moorland. If only I could make this moment last and make summer stretch until I make him/her mine. For such a prize, who wouldn't risk the roll of the dice once? Whom among us wouldn't gamble all for the chance of perfect love?" William Forde: June 20th, 2017.