Best Lesbian Romance 2010 by Radclyffe EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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WHEN WE ALMOST MET
Evan Mora
We almost met in 1993, and again in 1998. We might have
met on campus, or later, in a bar; we could have met just
walking down the street. It would be eight more years before
we found each other, but I believe we’ve crossed paths many
times before, we two. Sam and I.
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In the fall of 1993 I was eighteen years old, a freshman in
university, wide-eyed and naive, transplanted from my
hometown of nine hundred to a city of three million, and a
university of forty thousand. Daunting to say the least.
“Do you want us to stay?” my parents asked when the
boxes had been unloaded, and I was terrified at the thought
of being alone in the sea of strangers that moved around us.
“No,” I replied, my resolve marginally stronger than my
fear. “I’m good.”
So many new faces, so much to learn, so many discoveries
yet to make. I played a lot of sports, made good grades,
snuck my way into too many bars, and dated some
forgettable guy.
In the fall of 1993 Sam was twenty-three. She was in her
last year of law school, living with her girlfriend right around
the corner from my dorm. She did volunteer work for a legal
aid clinic on campus, worried about paying the bills, and fell
asleep every night in the arms of someone she loved.
I spent a lot of time in the law library; I imagine that she
did too.
One of my roommates really wanted to get into law school.
We studied in the law library because she said it inspired
her. I went along because it was quieter than the dorm, and
less congested than the main campus library.
How many times were we there together, I wonder? Did
we spend an afternoon side by side, immersed in our
respective texts? Or did we, perhaps, cross paths at the door
—she on her way in and me on my way out? I wonder if our
eyes ever met. What would she have seen in the fresh-faced
country girl I was then? Would her heart have tripped just a
little, the way it did all those years later? Would I have felt
that telltale fluttering in my stomach? The one that told me I
was in trouble the minute she said hello? Maybe.
But she was in love, and I had that guy…. I’d never kissed
a girl, and she was already trying to build a future. We
couldn’t have met then, could we? No. We weren’t ready yet.
In the summer of 1998 I was twenty-three. I had a good job
with even better hours—perfect for endless summer nights
at the bars. I loved the atmosphere, loved the heat and the
smoke and the heavy beat of the music.
I was in love with
loving women, and in love with the game. A shared glance
across a crowded room, tentative smiles and shy flirtation,
the delicious feel of two bodies moving sensuously together
on the dance floor. I’d been with a woman or two—people I’d
met through work—but that summer was definitely my first
season in queer society. I felt more at home in my skin than
I’d ever felt in my life.
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