All Comments on 'Sage Advice'

Reading this story brought a lump to my throat. Normally, Lit helps bring a lump to my pants... I suspect that you must be a contemporary of mine or, if you're not, you've beautifully captured what I experienced as a child of the 60s, entering college in 1969 and experiencing love for the first time. Her name wasn't Kate and mine isn't Tom; we were both freshmen and spent a lot of time in the woods. Like your characters, we did "everything"...BUT have intercourse, denying ourselves for the same reasons your characters did. It was probably the biggest reason that we broke up early in our sophomore years; she wanted it, I was the reluctant one. By that Christmas she was engaged to another guy and they married before graduation. And subsequently divorced a few years later. Although we live within an hour of each other, I have never seen her again since college, yet I think of her often. Now in our 60s, I suspect we may not feel as attractive to each other as we once did. She was my first love and, in hindsight, should have been my first lover. Thank you again for a wonderful story and sage advice. If your name happens to be Christine, I would love to hear from you.... John.

Even though it is a well crafted tale, I personally just couldn't get into. I did rate it at 5.

I like this but why it was deleted and posted again.It show in the new stories section. Why does literotica does not check if it was an old story

This is not an old story. It was first submitted less than a week ago and was first posted on Sunday. I'm not sure what you're thinking about.

Janet Fremont

The minute the strange woman appeared on the trail and said her name was Kate, the supernatural theme of the story became obvious. The advice she gave seemed meaningful, but you don't hear the rebuttal. The trouble with so much advice, both personal and political is that you get only one side at a time and you really should take the time to hear the other side and give solid thought to both sides of the argument before you make a decision.

I lost a love when I was a new college graduate because of a fluke in the delivery of a letter and to some extent I always regretted it. But, I know I became a different person after that and perhaps it worked out for the best. My outlook on life, my goals and my politics have all changed significantly. Maybe we would have changed together, but perhaps it is best to get a good handle on who you are and what you want out of life before you make a lifetime decision. I can only think that Kate and Tom (the younger) were too young and inexperienced to make serious decisions and should have gone into the real world to learn more before making them. The counter argument is that you can learn together and grow together if you really work at it.

In the 55 years since I lost that first love I have been with three women: divorced twice and widowed once and now I'm alone. Who knows if my first love and I would have stayed together for 55 years. Life is a crap shoot and all you can do is roll the dice.

(By the way, if the other Kate was really 96 now she would have lived at the time when Damon Runyon wrote. He would have been before her time only if that Kate was the future manifestation of the younger Kate.) Worth 4* to me.