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I’d earned that compliment myself a few times over the years, In fact, I once had what my friends would consider the ultimate meet-cute: a whirlwind vacation stay-out-til-dawn night with a guy I’d only known for a few hours. It was exciting and magical and all that, but it’s also how I learned that there’s a Goldilocks issue at play with these types of stories — they should be romantic, yes, but not so romantic that you’re paralyzed with fear that you’ll do something to ruin the magic.
“Your first day?” He seemed to radiate excitement at this news. “You’re going to have the best time! How long are you staying?” “That was so nice! I was there an hour before you guys even got there!” I babbled. “You didn’t have to do that! Thank you so much.” He smiled at me and gestured to the door.Dinner which turned into bar hopping which turned into dancing, which led to him and I peeling off and wandering through the cobblestone streets of Reykjavik before heading back to the hotel in the earliest hours of the morning — what would be sunrise, if Iceland’s sun actually went down in the summer.
I wasn’t sure if we fizzled because too much time had passed since that initial night, or if we were both second-guessing what it had actually meant. Occasionally a friend would ask, “Whatever happened to Iceland guy?” And I’d shrug and say some variation of, “Not much, we keep in contact here and there.
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