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I met Susan Richtman several years before I became romantically interested in her, which, for the record, occurred when a column of this ilk would have been composed on an electric typewriter, rather than on the keyboard of a laptop computer.

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(We’ll call the preceding paragraph the setting. The setting took place long ago.

Now, back to the plot …)

I had actually gone to elementary school with one of Susan’s sisters, and, because Susie had dated my best friend’s brother, our paths would cross from time to time – more by accident than by fate.

Then Burton Cummings changed everything.

Most people who know me well will tell you I can be obsessive regarding certain topics – and, certainly, about the lead vocalist for the popular Canadian rock group The Guess Who.

He is my all-time favorite singer.

By a wide margin.

I hope, for your sake, his hits list rings a bell. “These Eyes,” “American Woman,” “Share the Land,” and “Stand Tall” topped the charts, back in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

And “Dream of a Child” helped me win the love of my life.

That song was the title track on an album Cummings released in 1978. It is a beautiful, playful ballad that was a big hit in his native Canada, but for some reason it never struck gold in the U.S.

In fact, I heard it play only one time on the radio.

When it did, when the first note from Burton’s grand piano rang through the dashboard speaker, I knew I was party to a transcendent moment. I knew I was being called – by God or, maybe, just by Burton. And I knew I JUST HAD TO finish the business that was started the first time I’d engaged in a meaningful conversation with the striking, bright, tenderly shy brunette sitting just a few feet away in my car.

Though the clock had struck midnight not long before, it was chiming again – only, now, just to me and just for me.

I looked into Susan’s eyes. I moved my head oh-so-slowly toward hers.

I closed my lips.

And my eyes.

Never before or after has there been a better kiss.

Anywhere.

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