Phone call

I met my wife to be when we she was twelve and I was 15 or so, we were friends for a year or so when we played in a band together. We had met a couple of times over the next 25 years as we had a common interests but not really spoken much to each other. I found out one February, from a mutal friend that she had separated from her husband and was going through a divorce but thought nothing more about it. By the time April came around I found myself thinking about her more often than I ever had and wondered how I could find her telephone number without anyone knowing. I didn't have her address or even know what her married name was. One evening in April I was sat trying to think of a way to justify my interest in her to a mutual friend without actually saying that I wanted to ask her out when the telephone rang. It was my now wife, who had been wrestling with exactly the same dilemma as me for about a week before coming up with a solution. What struck me was not that she had wanted to phone me, obviously we must subconciously have felt some sort of attraction to each other even if it was based on a friendship formed 25 years earlier. It was that I was sat thinking about how to find her number and what I would say to her when she rang me. Up to that point we had never even spoken on the phone and as far as I was aware, she had no idea that I might be attracted to her. Thank goodness that she did phone me or I might have still been thinking what to say instead of getting to her married 4 years later.