| My best friend Courtenay
introduced us in youth group where we maintained an easy going and
somewhat flirtatious friendship. When Taylor left for college, our
friendship blossomed through instant messaging which soon upgraded
to phone conversations. We found that we connected on many levels from
our views on Pentacostals to dating relationships.
January
7, 2003 (20 days before he departed for a semester in Spain
and I departed for a semester in France!) he got the nerve up to
say "we need to talk...". Being clueless about one anothers'
true feelings, we felt certain the "talk" would cause us
to disengage a bit from our close friendship. We were pleasantly
surprised when we ended the night in a dating relationship for the
first time in our lives! My mother was excited to repeat the quote
she once heard: "You know, you can't go wrong with a Birkey
boy!" I'm sure she'd stand by that quote to this day :) |
