A Love Story of Mss. Jones

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Samantha and Smith are one of my fave couple of all time. There's one episode of SATC where Samantha feels insecure and lost her identity as a "woman". It's the longest she's been in a monogamy relationship with the same guy and it's starting to scare her. At one party she attends with Smith, she's openly go hooking up with her former lover Richard, leaving the young Smith confused as the lift's door closes behind her.

It is a moment of vulnerable, when you make a decision you know you'll regret but you do it anyway. When the only thing to validate yourself is by committing a sin, so you know there's something wrong with you. When you think you lost yourself but turn out you just need a little reminder to find a way back home. Samantha cheats on Smith that night. She goes with a man she knows wouldn't love her the way Smith does. She throws away a chance to spend her life with a guy who genuinely cares about her. She screws up, big time.

The moment she finishes with Richard is like a cue for her to break down. She walks out from the room in her usual self, elegant and dignified. But on the lift ride back down, she can't no longer hold the tears. And there he is, the first thing Samantha sees when the lift's door opens, the man she left behind. He stays, with worry eyes, tapping his fingers back and forth. He stands up as Samantha's eyes meet his.

She knew she'd regret it, but she did it anyway. She was lost, only to find out that she's actually home all along. And Smith is there, to answer all of her doubts, and take her in his arms, save and sound.

Smith stays literally through the thin and the thick of Samantha Jones. He is patience, he listens to her, he do things with her (in which mostly is Samantha's ideas), he is loving. He is by far the second best support system to her, right after the girls. Being with Samantha makes him a gentleman. And him to Samantha is a pleasant surprise to her ever dynamic life. An oasis in the dessert.

If you watch all the series of SATC, you know that Samantha and Smith are no longer together. But I think, what Samantha had with him will always occupy a corner of her heart, where man is rarely a part of it.