The assignment was to read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. But, she couldn’t concentrate on the text in front of her. All she could think of was the man standing behind the lecturn at the front of the class. She knew it was forbidden dreams. She knew she would never have her professor. But, her deepest longings were to hold him in her arms and tell him how much she cared about the pain he was suffering. She knew his pain becuase she had experienced similar circumstances in her life. She longed to hold him and kiss him. She longed to be anywhere with him but this crowded lecture hall. But, alas, here longings were forbidden dreams.