it's not too late (28 years ago today)

            (written 6 years ago) 22 years ago today marked the first time i treated my eyes to my beautiful v... for me it was love at first sight... it was at a wedding rehearsal.... we were both in the wedding... we then danced the night away the next night after the wedding... here's how i described it in a letter to v written a couple of months after we first met... (v is so wonderful... she saved every letter i ever wrote her... it is quite a stack)...

"over the past few years, i was convinced that i had become incredibly unattractive to women in general.... i considered making a change... i considered becoming a writer... a businessman (applied for my MBA and was accepted at Stanford and MIT), a bum, a traveler (Tibet no less), an astronaut (i applied to nasa), an MD, who knows?  After several months of basic seclusion in East Austin, I went to a wedding of a childhood friend. I only attended because i felt a sense of duty since i was asked to be a groomsman. during the rehearsal, one of the bridesmaids caught my eye, and to my surprise I seemed to have caught her's too!!  At the following dinner, she seemed to go out of her way to talk to me.  At that point, any woman would have to make an effort to engage me in conversation. i asked the bride and groom for "the story" of the lovely lady... i was quickly told that she was "figured to be fixed up" with the best man... oh well. later that night we spoke some more, and i barely perceived something in her eyes... something i hadn't seen in years... the next day at and after the wedding, i couldn't take my eyes off of her, and again to my surprise she seemed to keep her eyes on me... then late in the night during a clumsy slow dance, i saw that light in her eyes... the light i needed to feel again. She was beautiful as i held her in my arms tripping over my feet to the slow rhythm.  i quickly asked for her phone number... i had to see her again... i had to see those eyes again... sometimes one must keep the faith, i had lost it... and she returned it to me... thank you!"

later i found out that the woman (penny.. had to be close to 40 yrs old at the time) who came with v to the wedding... told v immediately after seeing v and i together that i'd be the man that v would fall in love with and marry... 

but one of the things i remember quite vividly were the dresses for the bridesmaids... they looked like prom dresses... when v and i were dancing one of her prom dress straps broke and hung off one of her shoulders... her left shoulder... it is the single sexiest image i can ever recall... ever... oh for a camera then...

Taken on: April 17, 2014

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