 | This story never gets old...Bamm and I met when were 13 and 14 years old. We met at church. Shortly after we met, guess who made a suprise appearance at my 14th birthday party?! Bamm!! I remember the entire time we stared and each other from across the room (you know the googly eyes) LOL, not really saying much but the connection was there. For my birthday, one of my presents was the Kc and Jojo cd, I was so excited because there was a song on that CD that I really loved. Not knowing it would hold such a significance for the both of us. The song is " All my Life"....and believe me I played that song on repeat for the rest of my party. Not your typical party music...:)
Since we were so young, and lived so far away...he lived in Elmont and I lived in Bay Shore we had no way of staying in contact. Neither one of us drove and I don't even remember if I had a cellphone then (probably not). So unfortunately, we lost contact.Fourteen whole years went by. I had no idea what happened to him, all I had was the memory of him at my birthday party and how much we liked each other. You know, a kid crush kind of thing. I would think of him occassionally, wondering what happened to him. Everyone I asked seemed not to know about his whereabouts.
Fast forward to 14 years later...2010
One spring day, in April of 2010, I was at my intership and I recieved a facebook notification, saying "Bamm Fdw" would like to be friends with you. I said to myself, who is Bamm forward?! LOL Totally, clueless as to who this could possibly be. When I left my internship, I rushed to work, logged onto facebook to see who this "Bamm Fdw" was. I thought to myself I only know one Bamm and God only knows where he could be. Low and behold it was Bamm from back in the day! OMG!!! I hurried and accepted his friend request and I immediately reached out to him wanting to know how he was, where he was and where he's been all this time. We chatted back and forth for a little bit and he asked me to call him. I did and we were both so happy to hear one anothers voices after all this time! By the way that convo lasted for about 2 hours!!! From there we'd talk frequently over the phone and over skype, just to catch up. He still had that cute smile that I remembered from when we were pre-teens. It was so crazy how much we both remembered. Since we had limited interactions.
After a few months of communicating, Bamm invited me to come visit him in Virginia June 2010...I did. I wasnt nervous, nor afraid surprisingly. I told myself, how I feel when I see him will confirm if this is the right one. When I saw him for the first time (after all these years), I was neither nervous nor afraid...it actually felt as if time was never lost. I felt like this was where I was supposed to be. I visited just about every weekend after that and finally moved to Virginia October, 2010. Leaving my family, friends and NYC life all behind. Although I miss all of those things dearly, I'm glad I decided to follow my heart. We've been history ever since...still feels like yesterday! No really it does! :)
We are still in love... |