Monday, December 1, 2014

a new boy friend

That's boy friend as two words, not one.

In early November I go to a screening of Whiplash.  Sitting next to me are four guys, obvious friends.  I am alone, and end up in conversation with one of them.

Two weeks later I'm at a screening for The Imitation Game.  In front of me is the guy I'd met at the Whiplash screening.  Robyn is with me, and she can engage anyone.  Before the movie starts, we know that Eric (yes, that's his name) has a girlfriend upstate, lives on the upper west side, grew up in Manhattan, and loves movies.  We exchange cards and I add him to my screening invite list.

Tonight I meet Eric to see a screening of A Most Violent Year.  We are the first ones there, and for twenty minutes or so we think we might be at a private screening for just the two of us.  That eventually changes, but only by a handful of people.

Eric is easy to talk to.  In the short time we have before the movie starts we exchange stories about ourselves.  His are interesting and surprising. Among other things, we discover that we both have lived in Boston.  We both have lived in Chicago, at exactly the same time.  His family spent summers on the Cape and he knows it well.  We are in related businesses (he owns a media and marketing company). And we have had unconventional relationships.

In college and after, many of my friends were males.  But this is no longer true.  While I am lucky to have many female friends, the other sex eludes me.  Having a male friend would be nice.  Perhaps I've just found one.




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