Why We Left Our First Date at the Theater—and What It Taught Me

how tired I seemed the moment we arrived. It wasn’t obvious, he said, but it was there—in the way I rubbed my hands together and how my smile didn’t quite reach my eyes. “I realized,” he admitted, “that I didn’t want our first memory to be us sitting through something when you might need something else.” Instead, he suggested a walk, or even just a continue reading …