It's a Small Small World

Today, July 4 was a very strange day and I have to note it someplace, so I guess I'll do it here on my blog, which I'm using as an online journal - posted, but since no one knows about it, I'm sure no will read it anyway.

I went to my friend Marilyn's July 4th party today - she lives in Easton and I almost decided not to go because of that, but I thought - why not? When I got there, she immediately introduced me to a young man standing in the kitchen. She said his name was Stuart. Now, why did Stuart look so familiar? And sound so familiar?? So my brain started to hummm in the background ...hummmm no... no.. this couldn't be.... is this.. Stu Green???? So I asked him what his last name was. Good Lord, it was. I laughed and said " I, uh, used to know you!!"
I didn't tell him that I used to have a super humongo crush on him. I mentioned that I remember meeting him at a Halloween party in Newton. He came with a friend, who I think played softball with the party giver and my friends. I visited him at work where I brazenly gave him my number, invited him to our house for dinner (when I lived w/ Eden), went to a party at his house, and invited him to a new year's party (an invitation he declined), and of course, never heard from him again after that. I can't remember the exact sequence of events. I think I may have seen him at another party where we were not in costume and I got to see what he really looked like but I also think that when I stopped to see him at the Sharon Advocate on the way to the Zamir retreat, I don't think I knew what he looked like. Eden and I were just discussing this via email the other day. She couldn't remember his name. Turns out he's divorced and lives in Norwood and is the Managing Editor of the local newspaper. And I never thought I'd see him again. Life sure is funny.
While we were talking Jody and Mark arrived and I left Stu to talk to her and went out on the deck. I left him talking with some older woman who I had also been talking to. Most of the people there were people from the temple in Sharon, which is how Marilyn and Larry know him to begin with. He came out onto the deck after awhile and I talked to him a bit more about what I do - singing in zamir, singing in temple etc. He must have thought about it for awhile, and remembered more because he asked me how Eden was. I said that after a long time with Tony, she was getting married. We talked about relationships for a bit, and I said, what about you? He said he was divorced, no children. You know, I was happy to chat with Stu and make small talk, and in the back of my mind, my brain was going -"this is stu... this is stu...how funny is this..." but in reality, I didn't really care. I have mentioned to a few friends that I think it's because my switch has been turned to "off". While on the one hand, I really thought it was hysterical, on the other hand, it meant nothing.
Marilyn says that she thinks he's very nice, but an "odd duck"...from what I remember, that is probably still true.