Of Love & Acrobats

She had always thought it was only in books that a person's life could change. Until sorrow unleashed behind a dreary bowling alley by the return of a letterman's sweater became an opportunity to set out across a dark, lustrous sea with a charming individual chock full of strange obsessions. Obessions such as dancing a flamenco every time a clock chimed ten, or guffawing at the tripping of an awkward person as though the moment were a cosmic joke. Despite his inexplicable behavior the stranger became her new love and the couple disappeared into the future like a pair of dancing acrobats.