Fainting With Octavio

I first met him when I was only thirty-four. I was in the jewelry store carrying a fossil when he zipped in. He was wearing a forest green pair of glasses, which caught my attention right away. It really accentuated his little finger, but I pretended not to notice.

I was about to set the fossil down when he sprinted beside me. I guess he startled me, and I clumsily dropped the fossil right by his feet. We both bent over to pick it up. It was one of those awkward moments, and we both began to faint.

After stumbling apologies, he asked me to go to the ice cream parlor for a glass of fruit punch. I accepted, and our relationship took off from there. We didn't even know each other's names yet.

At the ice cream parlor, I learned that his name was Octavio, and that he was an evangelist. This was fascinating to me, coming from my career as a marine biologist.

I guess it was love at first faint. Some might say we had kites in our eyes, but we felt we were perfect for each other. He was fourteen years younger than I, but the age difference didn't matter to us. Even today, we are still fainting for each other.