Back on Le Ponant that night, we sailed under the clearest, most star-filled, balmy night I’ve ever experienced. Lorenzo left for a moment to help move a table. I was standing on the back of the boat, watching the sky, when the most perfect, most amazing shooting star rose up behind the stern, arched across the back of the boat and fell to the other side. It was magnificent. It brought tears to my eyes, it was so beautiful.
At that moment, Lorenzo appeared and I told him what I saw. Suddenly, he embraced and kissed me. I was shocked! All that was running through my head was “What are you doing? What are you doing? What if someone comes?!?”
No one came.
The next day, we stopped on Corsica where we had our first lunch date. I ate pizza. He ordered moulles frites (clams and French fries). We shared a carafe of local rose and talked about our past and our dreams. He was going to develop real estate with his father in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy and I was going to make another film. Right. No one could have predicted then that he would give up sailing and Europe for me. And DUTY DATING is my only feature to date.
So that’s how I Met My Husband Sailing On The Mediterranean. Mother never dreamed I’d bring home such a souvenir!
May all your meetings be magical.
