Amber,
Thanks for the good read!
I am imagining the cactus bearing the fruit :)

'Someone rightly said one can be deeply in love with someone to whom he/she cannot be successfully married.'
Coincidentally, I was pondering over the lines above while reading your work. It was an opinion of a priest included in Maureen Dowd's NYT Op-Ed article. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/opinion/06dowd.html

Keep on writing!