I nervously sipped it, feeling extremely self-conscious about the gaudy borrowed dress I was wearing. I remember thinking I should be ashamed, sitting in a bar. The evening passed in a blur of smoke and colored lights. As if to undo my sins, I immediately took a long, hot shower and slipped into bed, questioning the sanity of what I had done. It's a miraculous coincidence that we even met, considering our wildly divergent lives, and the yawning 25 year gap in our ages.
Events seem to work out in unexpected, often delightful ways.
It is here, unchanged, as I wrote it for the class. Used under License.