Valentine Stories

That is soooooooo neat!!!

We need more stories here - c'mon everyone!!

Thanks, it's frozen in time... it's 32 year old bike, here's mine, @ 36yrs taken today, ( I like to travel light). ...now if I could only figure out the 'Dorian Grey' thing I might be in business! ☺

I agree, we need more stories VG! ☺

I hear disco music!

Love seeing the bike! Thanks for posting it. ☺

My pleasure! ☺

i said i'd do this a while back - i guess today'd be the day!

grr. i keep coming back and deleting because i have a feeling this is a story i maybe shouldn't tell here.


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Don't post anything you're not comfy with, Amy. I do wish more people posted their stories! Can't be that many shotgun weddings!! Hee hee.

o, i love my story! i'm just trying to figure out how to edit it so that i am not shunned by half the community...
; )

Enough with the teasing already! (Which half of the community?)

We are Amish?

hahahaha - that just came up in my class last week - the word shun is in the piece we are doing a project on and one guy brought in a picture of an Amish family. (From the back of course.)

Then I can have buttons! Whew.

It Only Happens in the Movies

part one

November 2001:
So, there i am, back in STL, working freelance techie jobs where i can find them, still a wild child (though a bit older).
i get hired to work "hospitality" (stupid job but easy and paid good) for a singer coming through town. It's getting flower baskets and the right kind of water and fruit, etc. Chick work. Blah.
But, the artist's production mgr/lighting designer is really nice - we talk about the business - i'd like to be doing something like what he does. We set up a breakfast meeting the next day, but i'm tired and call to cancel.

December 2001:
A couple weeks later, i regret it - this is someone who could help me with my career. So i find his business card and e-mail him, thinking he won't even remember me, but he does and is happy to e-mail back and forth.

March - May 2002:
The e-mails get friendlier - though he gives me good job advice too. He travels a lot, nights in hotel rooms with not much to do. We chat on AIM, and we flirt, but no big deal - i have a active social life with actual in person people.

June 2002:
Knowing my birthday is in July, and he asks me what i want, and then says, "How would you like to go to San Francisco in July to assist me on a show?"
Well, there's only one possible answer to THAT. i've never even been to CA. A free trip? To SF? Working with someone waaay higher up the food chain? And i really do like him - we flirt a LOT online now - and talk pretty seriously too (though i can only just sorta remember what he looks like). But hey - i'm going to San Francisco!

to be continued...

Will it still be Valentines Day when we hear the outcome??!

part two

July 2002:
i am at the airport in San Francisco! Wow! Cool!
Am i going to recognize him when he arrives? i am studying every man with a grey beard. Whew! He recognizes me. (And he has flowers. Really. How silly. i am so not into romantic junk.)
...but somehow, in those 5 days in SF, everything changed. i remember the exact moment, looking at him in the theatre, when he smiled about something, and i thought, "i could look at that smile for a long long time and never be tired of it. Hopefully, i will be the cause of it."
But 5 days doesn't last very long - and then it's over. He promises it isn't the end, but i can't let myself believe it. Why should this one be any different? Except, somehow, it seems like he is...

well, i was hoping maybe others would jump in with stories too, since i gave the thread a bump...

Don't leave us hanging . . . how does the story end, Amyethhyst???

The intermission isn't over yet...

I'm sittin' here with my jujubees and soda....waiting......

I thought is was over... you mean there's a part III?? ☺

i thought i was just boring everyone, and rambling on waaay too long.

part 3
July/August 2002:

When we got back, he did stay in touch. We phoned, e-mailed, post office mailed, and chatted.
But only 2 weeks later he was due to be out of the country, in a VERY out of the way place, for a MONTH. No cell phone, no phone in lodging, internet extremely limited (in a building a mile away). There were other complications to staying in touch as well. A month - with possibly no contact - seemed like forever. (A day seemed like forever!) He said that right after he got back he had to go to Dallas, and promised he'd fly me down there too. Actually, he gave me his Amex # and told me to book flights. After he left, i found out that he had made a website with a different message for me for every single day he was gone.

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But we are still in 2002! Then what happened????

Oh, the old website with a different message for me every day routine...

(pant) hanging on every word! THEN what happened?

it was pretty amazing.



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This was getting dull - i had to fix my unpolished drafts.
He deserves better writing...

part four:
He got back to the USA, communication was reestablished, and off i was to Dallas for a wonderful and difficult weekend. He was working most of the time, but when i got to the hotel there were flowers and notes everywhere in the room - just like a movie! But, it was difficult too. We only had 2.5 days. He was realizing that maybe the time had come to change his life. i was acting out - with my unerring knack for self-destruction, i went out to Deep Ellum, got drunk, and ended up bar hopping with a goofy (but harmless) boy until we realized the trains had stopped running - i had to call my hero to get a ride back to the hotel.
But mostly they were wonderful days, and he decided to take me to a big trade show/expo (that i'd always wanted to go to) in Las Vegas in October - then we'd have more time.

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i am sure that some people disapprove of how we became involved. He was involved in a long term relationship when we were first together. i was indeed the dreaded, scandalous "other woman." (hard as it is to believe now!) He told me he was terribly unhappy, and i figured he's a grown up and could make his own choices. i spent a lot of my youth in disposable relationships like that.

But love really can change everything - and sometimes grace can be found in unexpected places.

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part five: Dreams Can Come True

October 2002:
Swept away on another airplane, this time to Las Vegas, to see my hero. It was wonderful to be together, and he introduced me to lots of cool industry VIPs who i'd never dreamed of meeting - much less having dinner with! We had 6 days together in Vegas. i felt like Cinderella. But it was getting harder to hear the clock strike midnight every time. Something had to change, and we decided to take the leap. He went back to NYC, moved out of his apartment and in with his brother, found a sublet, and in...

November 2002:
almost exactly a year to the day after the 1st time we met, and 6 months after our first trip together...
He flew to STL stayed for 3 days while helping me pack everything we could fit into our total 4 suitcases of checked baggage, and swept me away to live with him in NYC, a city i had never even visited.

epilogue: Enchanted

A lot can happen in a year.

A girl who laughed disdainfully at the idea of romance became a believer. A man who thought he could see the course of his life in a straight line found a few new curves. And all the people who didn't believe in dreams come true have had to think again.
This slightly shopworn Cinderella and her extremely charming Prince are still together five years later.

And to think, if you add it up, we had spent less than 14 days in each others' physical presence when i ran away with him.

"Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down."

And they lived happily ever after...
(most of the time).

Nice story, Amy. Quite a whirlwind!

Very nice story!! So glad you found each other! Eleanor

Lovely story! You kept me on the edge of my seat!
Happy Belated Valentines Day, Everyone!

Yes, so sweet Amy! And Happy Belated VD to everyone!

Did you have to haggle for him, Emily??!!

Thank you Emily.

Victor - must you?

Did anyone do/get/give anything special for Valentine's Day this year?

A puppy for my DH. It wasn't really a planned VD gift - it just turned out that VD was the day I could pick her up.

DH took me to LongHorns but not until Friday night. (at my request)
I spent Valentine's day with my Sweetie.

I want a sweetie!