Julia
Before I met my wife, I dated a girl named Julia. Her memory had been triggered in me by the entry in my desk calendar for yesterday, which was her birthday. The calendar is Worse Case Scenarios and How to Prepare for Them. , and the entry was "How to Survive If Your Car Careens Down a Mountainside" . How we met and began dating is one of the greater adventures in my life. The beginning was not unlike running off a cliff blind. It was in the spring of 1981. I was going to college, acting in Community Theater and working at Home Depot. It was a crazy schedule, but I was young and thrived on the lack of sleep. One weekend, I was invited by my best friend Karl to a cast party for a players group that had put on a production of Brigadoon at North Georgia College. \It would be a big event and I would meet some neat people. He said everything would be happening Saturday and drive on up. Because of scheduling conflicts at work and some...