I was in Rome this weekend. I was walking along, in the early evening, minding my own business, looking at a map, and a tall, handsome frenchman asks me if I'm lost. We start a conversation, we go for a coffee, he invites me for dinner, and we have a lovely conversation, from art to psychology to literature, and at times I laugh so much, it's hurting. He walks me home, and kisses me on the cheek, and that's the end.
I know I'll never see him again, but it just felt so unreal, and lucky to have had such a pure, almost fantastic night. Seeing him again would only be a disappointment.
This sounds like I'm a journalist (I'm not), but I wonder if this has happened to others. I'm genuinely flabbergasted.
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Do you ever have an evening like something in a movie?
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RomanHolidayer · 21/04/2013 20:46
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whethergirl ·
21/04/2013 21:58
Oh, I don't feel I can say, sorry! His name probably won't ring any bells, anyway, although he has presented a couple of documentaries and he regularly composes music for films. We lost touch because I kind of fell for him and he told me that he was having an affair with a married woman. A few years later, I saw that he'd written an article in a newspaper about drug abuse...and found out that his son had died of an O.D since we'd lost touch 
FlutterShyPinkiePie ·
22/04/2013 05:55
I was in a long distance relationship when I returned home from working abroad. I was thrilled after a few months when he booked a flight to visit me here & went to meet him at Gatwick. As soon as he came through the doors and found me in the queue he got down on one knee and proposed right in the middle of the arrivals hall! Everyone around us clapped and, despite being embarrassed at creating a scene, it really did feel like a movie 
Love the sound of your Frenchman OP
SingingSands ·
23/04/2013 23:53
What a perfect evening OP, I'm quite jealous!
The closest I can come is arranging to meet a young man at a train station, in the days before mobiles. We had met on holiday and swapped numbers, and he was visiting Glasgow and so we arranged a date. I waited for an hour at the station before accepting I'd been stood up, so took myself off shopping to cheer myself up. When I got back to the train station after a 3 hour mooch around town and was heading to the underground to go home, something made me go back into the direction of the main concourse and there he was! He scooped me up in front of everyone when he saw me. He had missed his train into town and had no way of getting in touch so had decided to wait at the station in case I came back. It was now 4 hours after our arranged meeting time! He must have really wanted to see me! We had dinner together then had to get our last trains home..
We had a short happy affair, but he was in the Royal Marines and our lives took different courses. He died last year from cancer and remembering this funny night we had has brought back some happy memories and happy tears.
mirai ·
06/05/2013 09:14
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Kione ·
06/05/2013 09:42
Sort of...
I met a guy on a night out, he was with his friend, I with mine. Both if them had partners but we had such a great laugh til the early hours. He was from another town and this too is befire mobiles. On New Years eve he fonvince his friends to go out in my town to see if he could see me and we dud bump into each other! After a drunken snog we arranged to meet so I could help him buy his little brother hus xmas present. (6th if January present day in Spain). So we met for the afternoon, we had so much fun shopping that he wanted to meet at night again, the present was a Titanic model in a box and he was on a scooter. I still remember the lovely feeling when he rode off, and roda back 2 hours later to meet me. That evening we sat at the quay just talking and laughing. It was just great.
I think I saw him every day fir the next two years! We did split up but I went to his wedding and we are still friends
Kione ·
06/05/2013 09:44
sorry spelling from.phone. I meant it was so funny to see him riding off with the massive present for his 12yo brother 
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