Thomas and I talked to each other on the internet for the first time on Valentine’s Day, which is a very embarrassing fact to relate. The night before, I had met up with a person I was dating - I’m stretching the word almost past reasonable use there but whatever, we live within an impoverished language - around midnight. We hadn’t planned in advance to see each other and neither of us had thought about what day it was. We had a very late, very long night and woke up the next day and managed to get through the morning without mentioning what day it was and I went home, walking the long sloping valley down across Atlantic Avenue and over the bridge above the old train yard and back up the verdant suburban streets through Park Slope, dragging last night’s hair and last night’s outfit past fresh-faced soccer moms already awake to face the day.
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Thomas and I talked to each other on the internet for the first time on Valentine’s Day, which is a very embarrassing fact to relate. The night before, I had met up with a person I was dating - I’m stretching the word almost past reasonable use there but whatever, we live within an impoverished language - around midnight. We hadn’t planned in advance to see each other and neither of us had thought about what day it was. We had a very late, very long night and woke up the next day and managed to get through the morning without mentioning what day it was and I went home, walking the long sloping valley down across Atlantic Avenue and over the bridge above the old train yard and back up the verdant suburban streets through Park Slope, dragging last night’s hair and last night’s outfit past fresh-faced soccer moms already awake to face the day.