I thought I’d look through some cards to see if I could find a good one, and if not I’d make something up as suggested. I hate shopping for cards, because 99% of them are either completely lame or way too sappy, so I always wind up pawing through them for half an hour or more looking for something decent.
Not so this time! As soon as I walked up a card caught my eye. The picture on the front was of a little boy and a little girl, each sitting on a bicycle, leaning over the handlebars kissing. Inside it simply said “So glad we ran into each other. Happy Valentine’s Day.” I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect card, considering our past relationship and then happening to hook back up 20 years later.
Of course, I wrote some stuff of my own. I also bought her a gargantuan single rose. I didn’t embarrass her outside her class, though; she wouldn’t have been happy about that. So I had the stuff waiting in my car. All in all, it was a resounding success.
