15 to 30: finding love
My Past Accomplishment: Finding Love When I Least Expected It
In the Spring of 2006 I was invited to a high school friend’s wedding – and I didn’t want to go. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to support her or to be part of the celebration. I was hesitant to attend because I was the only one of my group of friends not invited with a guest. It wasn’t an oversight; all the other girls were in serious relationships, and I was not. I was afraid I’d be the singleton sitting alone drinking at the table while all my friends danced the night away with their partners.
Thankfully, my mom and grandma talked me out of my pity party. They also persuaded me to wear a particularly sexy halter dress. “You never know who you’re going to meet,” explained my grandmother. Rather than doing the smokey eye and pale lip look, I tried a different route – black eyeliner and red lips. I bought a new pair of heels to go with my little black dress. It was a new look to match my new positive attitude.
I did spend the night drinking but not by myself. I also did more dancing than my coupled friends, many of whom had boyfriends who hated to dance. And there were far more single guys in attendance than I anticipated, and my outfit caught the eye of one in particular. (The green frilly shirt he wore with his tuxedo caught mine.) He was friends with the groom and happened to also be an alumni of Boston University. We spent nearly the entire evening together, and, when the party ended, we shared an innocent kiss.
We saw each other the next morning at brunch and then got together a couple of weeks later… although I was living in NYC and he was in Texas. We continued to visit each other once a month or so until he proposed to me 11 months after we met. And the rest, as they say, is history!
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