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Imagine the perfect first date. Where do you go and what do you wear? Now think of the last first date you went on. Describe please!

Actually, my last first date was pretty darn perfect.  And kind of the only real first date I've ever been on... until then I'd had a pattern of randomly falling into relationships without there being any very obvious starting point and without a first date... it's usually been about just ending up spending more time with a person, realizing you have feelings for each other, and then before you know it, it's a relationship.  And somehow the first date thing never really happened.  

But it did, in my current relationship, after a lot of silly flirting that made me feel like I was fourteen sometimes, and made all of our mutual friends roll their eyes at us quite a bit (probably thinking "okay, we know, you're crazy about each other, please do something about that fact so you can stop annoying us with it!") ...April 23rd, 2008 marked my first official "date" with anyone, ever.  And it really was perfect. 

He picked me up from my knitting class (it was a Wednesday-night first date, as I didn't have a job at that point and he didn't have to work early the next day).  I wore a denim knee-length pencil skirt, can't remember what top I wore, and can remember that it was still quite cold and I wore my black peacoat as well.  Possibly legwarmers, too.  And I'm fairly sure I wore my brown heeled boots. We went to dinner (a pizza place that is in between fancy/casual), spent all of dinner loving the food, talking, and laughing, and then went to a movie ("21"), smuggling in our own soda and candy from a trip to the dollar store beforehand, because let's face it, movie theaters are overpriced.

And the entire night was perfect.  We had a great night together, and the comfortable, fun, happy atmosphere of that first date still hasn't faded, just two months short of a year later.  So, yeah, definitely counts as a perfect first date to me :)