From out of the past

[mcollins]

So, 30 some years ago I met this girl. She'd moved from California to our small town because, as I later found out, her mother was getting a divorce. I had a crush on her in fifth grade, but then she moved away again. Then in high school she and her brother started spending the summers in our town. I started seeing her, along with a friend of mine. Things progressed until we were having a sexual relationship- she was my first in many ways. I was sure I loved her, whatever love is at 16 years old anyway. Of course she moved back home. We wrote to each other a few times and then lost contact.

30 years later I get an e-mail from her. She'd found me through another friend I had kept back home. She'd gotten married with in three months of myself and had two children, both the same age as my oldest two. Somehow we both ended up living in Colorado, not 50 miles away from each other.

I called and talked to her for hours in the last month, each of us catching up on the past while leaving feelings from the past unsaid. I don't know if I should suggest we get together for coffee or what. Her oldest daughter is into what I do and wanted some pointers on what to study.

I am happy that she ended up happy. Does that make sense to anyone?