"I have known and loved you for years, for centuries, for millenia. I have known and loved you since before knowledge and love, since before sight, before sound, before touch, before memory. I have known and loved you with every cell that has ever birthed and died in my body. I have known and loved you since you were me and we were one."

Love comes in many forms and may last for aeons . . . 

Story first published in First and Fiftieth and other stories, available from arberybooks.co.uk/