There are parameters we could set. Descriptors of desired states for each of us: visual, emotional, logistical, sensual, mathematical. We could discuss politics, expectations, the sense of possibility in the air.
And yet at that point I was still puzzled and too overwhelmed by these tentative but intense initial contacts. Was your response unique to me? Were you always so, apparently, sweet and effusive in compliments and gracious in your manner? Am I missing something? At what point should I stop pinching myself or stop thinking of you?