dark sweet lady;;

               a guilty smiles coats the man’s face, though                his cheeks try to hold it back, causing his teeth                to just poke out. still, even his eyes show a bit                of glint in them, a pleading look; almost saying                please don’t yell at me.

          “ … okay, maybe i had a bit of cookie             dough. maybe. only enough for, hm,             three cookies though, i swear. ”

               his hands comes up defensively. maybe it was                actually liv’s fault – she shouldn’t have let him                help when she well knows he’s a cookie dough                addict.

      with an amused snort, liv pushes the       bowl into the sink and abandons it in       favor of advancing towards the taller.

           “ three ? i think maybe eight. or nine. “

      amused, the woman gives george’s       stomach a few firm prod, both pointing       out the stolen goods and trying to get       him just as tickled as her about the       situation.

           “ that’s the last time i’ll be asking you for               help with the baking, sir. “

// offending scoffing in the distance

George and Olivia, screen cap from Living in the Material World. 40 years ago today, on 23 October 1974, George Harrison held a press conference at the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel, confirming his upcoming North American tour… and it was sometime in October 1974 that George and Olivia Trinidad Arias met in person for the first time.

“Olivia came into the picture at just the right time, a crazy, dark time. She is a strong person, and when he fell for her we all agreed that was a good thing. It wasn’t good for him to be on his own, and without her things would have got worse.” - Jim Keltner, Mojo, November 2014

Q: “Was it love at first sight?” Olivia: “Pretty much. We felt it in our hearts from before we met. Even on the phone, we seemed to have some understanding, like you do when you meet the right person. And he was a charmer, such a charmer!” - The Sun, 2009

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“I fell for her immediately. She is a very calming influence. She has been very supportive and we are blissfully happy together. I told her I didn’t want her doing all that typing. We started going with each other, and four years later we married.” - George Harrison, The Mirror, 1 December 2001

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“The lyrics to I Me Mine were known to me long before the October evening in 1974 when I met the man who wrote them. George and I had spoken by telephone many times because I worked for his Dark Horse record label in Los Angeles. Still that first face-to-face meeting, followed by twenty-seven years together, is just as vivid today as the last time I saw his face.” - Olivia Harrison in her introduction to the 2002 edition of I Me Mine