Lovely, bittersweet, and real. The scene where they meet in dance class is just wonderful (though wasn't flashback!Stella's hair brown at the bank robbery? am I wrong about that?), and I love how you've counted backwards, ending up on #1, the end of Stella and Ray, and the beginning of something new. I love the little intimacies of their relationship, how dancing was always effortless with her, how he could still charm her at the lawyer's dinner, how she was always wet for him. How they seem to be inhabiting two different worlds even when they're in the same room. How she still agrees to dance with him, at the end. Just beautiful.
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Date: 2007-07-22 10:44 pm (UTC)