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I was 50 when a 19 year old asked me out
I asked him if we could play Dominion instead
Before COVID, there was a restaurant that I would go to about once a month, sometimes with a friend, often with a date. One of the waiters there was really cute and I liked flirting with him. We hit it off. We’d often talk about Dominion and other games we liked to play, or places we’d enjoyed traveling to. He was new in town, so I mentioned some cool hang-outs.
I didn’t think anything of this aside from how much fun I was having flirting with a really cute guy. I knew he was too young for me.
He was 19 at the time, and I was 50. So, just fun.
Then I mentioned to him, the next time I was there, that I was going to be speaking at a local story-telling event. I would be telling the story of how I survived cancer, a mastectomy and a divorce. The venue was one of the more quirky, interesting places in the downtown area. The event itself would have 4 other speakers, so there would be a good variety.
I was pleasantly surprised when he showed up to the event.
Afterwards, at the end of the evening, I thanked him for coming. He told me how much he enjoyed my speech, hugged me, which was very nice, and then asked me for my phone number.
