Thursday, January 1, 2015
What if I decided to go to the New York show instead of
Philly? What if you were on time and didn’t need to share a space I arrived
early to get? What if the show started on time, reducing our window to get to
know one another?
There were so many variables and moving parts Halloween
2004; ten years later the details have faded, but the constant is that was the
night I met the “light-skinned girl with locs”, as my boy would describe you
for the years to come. I knew that night you were special. I knew I wanted to
get to know you better. Knew I wanted to marry you.
A week later we had our first (and only) date and the moving
parts of our lives at 26 left me wondering about the woman I shared that
evening with for nearly five years. There was an e-mail, and another that I
never sent, but you were always hanging between me and love like an apostrophe.
I wondered what you were doing, if you were married, if you were happy, but for
five years I never actually tried to find out.
But The Facebook allowed me to track you down (a little
stalker-ish I know) and answer the questions I’d been holding for years. You
were doing great, weren't married and was as happy as could be. The key was
that you weren't married, not all the way single either, but God gave me a
second chance and I didn’t care.
The months it took us to go on our second date were the best
thing to ever happen to us, because we had the time to get to know one another
(again) and I wouldn't trade any of our story. It has all brought us to where
we are now, able to laugh about that night, reminisce about our first date and
allows me to remind you that we could have been married at least eight years by now.
What if I decided to go to the New York show instead of
Philly? What if you were on time and didn't need to share a space I arrived
early to get? What if the show started on time, reducing our window to get to
know one another?
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