This has only happened to me once in my life. I was at a fundraiser in 1987 and this man sat down next to me. There were quite a few empty seats, but he picked the one next to me.
We turned and looked at each other and any passerby could feel the electricity.
We moved in similar circles and kept running into each other. The affair was passionate. It did not end well.
He died in 2006. Cancer. About 6 months before I had an intense desire to see him. I had no way to know he was ill.
I knew there was a class he taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So I went and hung out outside till the break. The first two times he wasn’t there. The third time I was standing with my back to the door of the class in a big overcoat. He came up behind me and put a hand on my shoulder. He recognized me instantly from behind and bundled up, after 15 years.
We spent the afternoon talking. A few weeks later the cancer came back with a vengeance and he had to live in a bubble, but we corresponded till the week before he died.
I started reading the obits. In early October I saw it. I got blind drunk that night. And then put it away in a little box in my mind.
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