There's a lady who teaches belly dance at a few of the recreation centers in the cities around here, and who also hosts belly dance parties at her house about twice a year. I've been doing middle eastern drumming for so long, teaching it weekly for the last five years, and running drum circles so often that she asks me to lead the drumming for her parties; I've done that for at least two years now.
At the November 2007 party, I became entranced by one of the dancers from the moment she hit the dance floor for her solo. It's been years since a dancer has thrown off my rhythm, but later that night she did. We really connected at the party, but it took until the end of the night before I could work up the courage to even ask for her phone number.
Our first date was just a couple days later, and we've really connected since then. Besides the obvious shared hobby of middle eastern drum and dance, we have very similar styles about the way we go about life.
It's grown so much that on Valentine's Day 2008 I asked; after a brief, stunned silence she excitedly said yes, and we're engaged to be married! We are going for a long engagement and haven't set a date, but we're thinking mid to late 2009.
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