ABC Pool Hall. I was 14. He was 15. The first mention of “this hot guy from the pool hall” showed up in my diary on 4/29/97. But the important bits showed up in the days that followed…
5/3/97 – “I hung out with Chris Moore tonight at the pool hall…Me and Chris were like dragging each other around…Chris is SO hot, but he is known as a player…”
5/4/97 – “Me + Chris just got off the fone. He told me that he liked me. To my face. I dig him + he digs me.”
5/6/97 – I write the lyrics to “The Joker” by Steve Miller Band in my diary and gush about kissing Chris. “This is on the tape that Chris made me. We hung out today. We went to Tony’s Pizza, then ABC. At ABC, he kissed me. We kissed a lot…I love Chris sooo much.”
So there it is – Cinco de Mayo 1997. Our old brains knew the date was important, but we honestly couldn’t remember why. Well, I found it. Just in time for Chris’s 40th birthday! It’s smack in the middle of the time that we met, and it also became a time that somehow, we were always back in each other’s lives in the years that followed.
The details of everything I loved about Chris went on:
“I love Chris. He is soooo cute, he smells great, he’s a great kisser, he’s funny, he sings like me, the only down is the braces hurt!! Well I love CM.”
The braces didn’t last forever. But my love for Chris sure did…