It came by way of a mixed tape. Love by mixed tape so to speak. Granted it wasn't even a mixed tape, it was a mix, sent through email, by something called send space. We've come a long way from the days of waiting to press record as our favorite song came on the radio.
I had asked for "new music" months before. Many months later, he in turn, did finally reciprocate with the new music I had requested during my blue months in Los Angeles. Blue probably wouldn't even be the proper color, but rather a very dark navy. A color that would last through the end of 2009, and into the beginning of 2010, all the way to mid-March, when my music was finally received, downloaded, and labeled it's proper title, "Whiskey Sunset". This sunset called whiskey would be one to change my life as I knew it, for the moment and beyond, never to be the same again.
His name was George, and I am convinced he was my angel. Well the angel that would send the boy I was waiting for. Dating. Dating never seemed to end the way I had read in books when I was younger, I was waiting for my fairy tale and it wasn't until I stopped waiting that the "once upon a time" began. And so it happened with a mix on repeat, and many conversations to follow.
It began as old friends catching up, talking music, and life, and the life they both lived in separate cities for the years prior (sometimes even in the same city, never to meet up or talk really). Soon it turned into all day chats while both were at work, onto telephone calls, and texts, hypothetical dates, and finally a meeting and reuniting one day in mid-April.
Two friends. Knowing each other for what felt like a lifetime. Even failing the same math class twice together almost 9 years earlier. Reconnecting made us wonder how we were never in each others lives very much prior, but we also understand that there was an angel out there, our George, who believed everything happens for a reason. He hinted that we had to live our other lives out before we could find each other, to become the people we were destined to be, finding happiness (finally) within ourselves before such a reconnection was to happen. And then it did. And everything changed, just like it did for the princess in the fairy tale.
Oh, did I mention it was by far the most perfect mix I've ever received? Maybe that helped a little...
Just a girl, a hinted at princess now that she has found her prince, and kissed a lot of frogs to get there, and she couldn't imagine life any other way. Thanks George.
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