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Idiom: Cheek to cheek
Valentine’s Day is coming up.
For some people, that is more of a curse than a pleasure.
Remember when you would dance cheek-to-cheek with your significant other and not have a care in the world?
Cheek-to-cheek is often used to describe people dancing with their heads close together in a romantic way.
If visions of Patrick Swayze and Dirty Dancing come to mind, stop it right now.
I’m talking about romance, people!
You remember that, don’t you?
Think about Dean Martin and That’s Amore.
This is where we’re going with this.
People may have looked at you out on the dance floor, entwined in each other’s arms like two lovebirds and thought, “Why don’t you get a room?” but you didn’t care.
You were cheek-to-cheek with the love of your life.
What did you care about what someone you didn’t know thought about how close together you were?
In fact, they didn’t exist.
The world didn’t exist.
The only thing that existed in the universe was the one who would eventually become your better half.
You had found Mr. or Ms. Right, and now all was right with the world.
‘When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie – That’s Amore.’
And you lived happily ever after.
If only it worked out that way.
Standing there cheek to cheek, you never gave a thought to kids, mortgages, financial arguments, or just what ‘in sickness and in health’ really meant.
If you think about it, you’ll start to wish those who talked behind your back had come up and separated you before you fell too far in love to back out.
Oh, well, it’s too late now.
Don’t forget Valentine’s Day is coming up because she sure won’t.
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