Eric sent me a text message yesterday.  OR, I finally had cell reception yesterday, and got a message from Eric.  It said," Im at russo s on the bay.  remember that place? - Eric because his cellphone attaches his name to texts randomly.

And I'll be honest, I had no idea at first where that was.

Then I remembered, that was the name of the place my ill-fated senior prom wsa held.  And how Eric was the most amazing prom date ever and made sure I was having a good time, even as the prom was cancelled due to the fire and lack of power Russo's experienced that day.

What a great kid he is.  Through everything, through 7 years of ups and downs, I still love the kid who travelled about 40 miles to take me to my senior prom and then bent over backwards to make me happy because he knew that a girl only gets one senior prom (even if we DID hae a make-up one in July), and he took it upon himself to make sure I enjoyed as much of those 2 days as possible.

Mission accomplished.  I can't wait to see him later this week or next week.