Black Tie Affair

She's been to a few Black Tie Affairs. She has supported the guest of honor. Sometimes she has only sat in attendance as the affair progressed. But she too has been the guest of honor of a Black Tie Affair.

It was funny because the one wish that she had for me to honor was to never have a Black Tie Affair. And so I never did. When they were offered in my honor I gracefully declined. I shined away from hosting one in my own honor a time or two. So not only did I put away my Steppin-Out suit. I sent it out and donated it. Left it to other more adventurous types. After all it was how I had always wanted to live my life. It was all she asked of me and it was exactly part of all that I wanted to give her.

Oh, the Black Tie Affair It's a grand event most times. But there are some who hold them in the seedest of places. With the kind of Co-honorees that you wouldn't want to be seen in the light of day with. With some of the events nationally televised. Some with great fanfare! With promp and ceremony, amazing!

Sometimes I sit back and wonder, it seems like everyone is having a Black Tie Affair. I'm no virgin, no saint. I've been to one or two in my youth. Although I was never proud of the events. Always feeling like there were better places for me to be than at these. So when asked to never attend another it was with great relief that I obeyed. It was her only request and I loved her.

That is until the one day I discovered why the strange request. It would seem that the best Black Tie Affair is the one you have when you know the love you leave at home doesn't know you have it exclusively.