“I couldn’t work myself up to tell you how much I’d love a million more days in the park like that one with you.”
posted on Aug. 6, 2014, at 2:57 p.m.
Yesterday, someone posted a missed connection on Craigslist after having a ~ moment ~ with a guy she came across in a Brooklyn bookstore called WORD.
And it’s written pretty damn beautifully.
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Here’s the full text:
We spotted each other at WORD. I
don’t think you followed me but we ended up in the park afterward. You
sat next to me on a bench as the sun was beginning to set. You were
reading Willa Cather and I was reading Edward St. Aubyn.
Our knees touched once and then 5 minutes later touched again and
quietly stayed that way. It was the most romantic thing I’d ever felt. I
knew we were both too shy to ever say anything to one another and I
regret it badly now. I kept straining my eyes to the right side of my
head to see if you were doing the same to the left.
When my friend I was meeting for dinner found me at the bench I died
because I knew I couldn’t work myself up to tell you how much I’d love a
million more days in the park like that one with you. I came back an
hour later but you were gone. Find me. Please.
Maybe these two — and their books — will find each other and create a story of their own.
The verdict is still out on whether or not the ad is real (since
Craigslist has no way of fact-checking their posts) but regardless, this
is still one great piece of writing.
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