When did you reconnect, face to face?

M: I moved back to Toronto. I had a job writing for a lame movie magazine. I was walking around on my lunch break and I ran into your dad!

Was it fate? Did old feelings of love come flooding back?

M: He was wearing a fur coat and driving a Jag, so I was more interested.

Hold the phone. Are you serious?

D: It was a great coat!

M: Well, he might not have been wearing it on that occasion, but he asked me out and wore it on our date.

Mom, you’re going to sound like a gold-digging floozy.

M: Well, I was certainly not a gold-digger.

So you starting dating back up again. At this point, it’s been around fourteen years since you first met. Were you finally like, “This is the one?”

M: Not until we went out on the first date after those fourteen years. Everything just clicked. We spent hours and hours talking; we had so much in common, and we saw eye to eye on so many things. And your dad is so funny.

D: After running into your mom on the street, I called to ask her out. Her exact response was “What are your intentions?” to which I responded, “It’s a date.” Six months later we were married.

Mom was a “Rules” girl. Were you bummed that it took so long to figure out?

M: No. Because it was fun, being young and living my own life. I wasn’t ready before that. It was good because I had known him for so long, through so many different stages of life. I didn’t have to worry about him being a murderer or a creep or anything. He was familiar. Plus, he really swept me off my feet when we finally reconnected.

Details, please.

M: [laughs] Are you sure?

D: I did?

So you guys finally reconnected in person. How long it did take to tie the knot?

M: Six months of actual dating, and then we got married. I think we had waited long enough.

Fifteen years of courtship, six months of dating, and now almost twenty-eight years of marriage — was it worth the wait?

M: Absolutely. 

D: “What are your intentions?” [laughing] Who says that?

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