One Year Ago Yesterday

Us

I was dri­ving around Sioux Falls. And I had this really pretty, funny, tal­ented girl along with me. And I was ner­vous. I was going to ask her to be my girlfriend.

In Wal­mart we were shop­ping around, and I called Holly Smith, my accom­plice. I wanted to do it there. I had a fair idea that the girl would say “Yes”, but I wasn’t sure. Holly said under no cir­cum­stances could I do it in Wal­mart. So, I made the deci­sion to go to Falls Park. Holli asked who I was talk­ing to, and I said it was Bryce.

Lie #1.

At Falls Park, we sat for a while on a bench and talked. I care­fully and qui­etly worked up the nerve to ask my ques­tion. And then I asked it. And waited. And waited. And after a con­sid­er­able pause, she answered and said “Yes”. I told her that I would really like her to meet my grand­par­ents. In truth, I was try­ing to score points by bring­ing my new girl­friend to see the fam­ily first.

Lie #2.

We got to Karin’s and no one was there. We call and wait, and talk to Grandma and Grandpa for a very long time. Share sto­ries, con­nect on a deeper level than any­one could ever imag­ine. And then the day ended, and we went back to whence we came. It was a good day.

A year later we had plans to enjoy food at Jonny Carino’s, revisit Falls Park (for the first time since), and take in a movie. Well, weather was no per­mit­ting. Instead we went to Skipper’s in town (which is a pretty good Ital­ian restau­rant a cou­ple blocks from my apart­ment), we exchanged gifts, and we watched A Prairie Home Com­pan­ion. Skip­pers was good, the presents were sweet (I gave her an album of music that I’ve writ­ten since first learn­ing the gui­tar and recorded this past week or so, com­plete with album art, and she gave me a scrap­book with pic­tures from our first year together), but the movie was dis­ap­point­ing and a lit­tle boring.

All in all, I think it was a good Anniver­sary, and I’m very happy to have Holli in my life. :)

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