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The Girl in the Ballroom
100 Faces in 100 Stories — No61
1 min readMar 2, 2023
My eyes locked with hers across the room, and to say I was lost immediately would have been a deep understatement.
Her gaze seemed to shimmer like starlight by evening’s sweet kiss. Her lips were a Cupid’s bow with its arrow of humor aimed straight for my heart. And I felt it then, as if I were a soothsayer of myth, that someday she would be my wife.
But in the moment I was just a stranger. We hadn’t even exchanged names.
How do you win a woman’s heart when you know nothing about her?
You learn and give chase.
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