When it's this easy to be yourself around someone, you know it's right. When we met on that cruise, we bonded over Grateful Dead and gossiping about which of our fellow cruise mates were already making out less than 6 hours into the expedition. By the end of the trip, we were doing our best not to be our own little piece of the drama. And that was with me dying of seasickness most of the time.

We kept in touch over the next month, and when she said she'd be in the Bay in July, and asked if I would like to spend time together, the answer was easy. I responded with a question of my own: would she like to go to Napa with me. It seemed like a surefire plan. If everything went wrong, we'd still spend a weekend eating good food and drinking good wine in beautiful weather. If everything went right, maybe something more would come of it.

As should be obvious by now, everything went pretty right that weekend in July.

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