QUOTE : Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he could<br />possibly say: “It’s okay. I haven’t been on one of these [dates] in a while either.”<br />My smile triples in size.<br />Josh grins. “Just give me your hand.”<br />“W–what?”<br />“Your hand,” he repeats. “Give it to me.”<br />I extend my shaking right hand. And – in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true – Joshua<br />Wasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A staggering shock of energy shoots straight into my<br />veins. Straight into my heart.<br />“There,” he says. “I’ve been waiting a long time to do that.