{"id":464,"date":"2018-02-21T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?post_type=project&#038;p=464"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:39:17","slug":"true-story","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/project\/true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XQCc0tRPGlo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is still, I believe, one of the greatest how we met stories ever told. Every word is absolutely true, right down to the crack house, the limo and the nerdy opening line.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat over and over:<br \/>\nG Cadd9 G\/E G\/E<br \/>\nG\/E Cadd9 G G<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never in San Francisco<br \/>\nBut Dan said I had to, had to<br \/>\nBe at this meeting; It\u2019s gotta be you<br \/>\nBy the way\u2026 it doesn\u2019t pay<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll have to pay your own way. Do it anyway.<br \/>\nAnd just in case leave an extra day<br \/>\nOK. I did it anyway.<br \/>\nGeniuses, characters, I was like a child<br \/>\nDays fascinating, nights wild<br \/>\nBut I didn&#8217;t need that extra day; maybe i\u2019ll be on my way<br \/>\nI think I\u2019ll go ahead home, change my flight<br \/>\nI had no idea what would happen that night<br \/>\nLost my wallet in the back of a long black car<br \/>\nOutside that former crack house rooftop party bar<br \/>\nWell it was dark and black and that driver wouldn&#8217;t come back<br \/>\ntill the next day<br \/>\nguess I&#8217;m not leaving early<br \/>\nWent swing dancing with Michael and that&#8217;s when I learned<br \/>\nHow a queen should be treated and love should be earned<br \/>\nFinally to the airport, wallet in hand<br \/>\nfeeling my mojo, boarding area, I saw a man<br \/>\nLike a scene from a movie he was all I could see<br \/>\nThe world disappeared and it was just he<br \/>\nIs he looking at me when I look away<br \/>\nTen rows away on the plane he had no chance to say.<br \/>\nLanding in Dulles I guess my chance has gone<br \/>\nTill I get to the bus, you know that funny little bus and I walk on.<br \/>\nThis gorgeous man is standing in my favorite spot.<br \/>\nNow&#8217;s my chance. I&#8217;m gonna take my shot<br \/>\nI stand next to him, look over and smile<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s usually all it takes and he says&#8230; Nothing. Damn.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s a girl gotta do? What&#8217;s a girl gotta do?<br \/>\nSomething pushes me forward and says<br \/>\nTalk to him.<br \/>\nDeep breath.<br \/>\nI comment on the technology in the bus<br \/>\nSome kind of nerdy pick up<br \/>\nHe goes to reply and he can&#8217;t speak<br \/>\nChoking on his own shock and me<br \/>\nPlease tell me you&#8217;ve talked to women before<br \/>\nHe gets it together; and we walk out the door<br \/>\nOne date, leads to another and it feels like home<br \/>\nFour weeks later, inseparable<br \/>\nHe says, I&#8217;m not supposed to tell you I love you this soon<br \/>\nI said: yeah&#8230;. You&#8217;re not<br \/>\nTwo weeks more and I work up the courage<br \/>\nto admit the truth<br \/>\nI feel the same<br \/>\nThis is the part where you run away, I said<br \/>\nNope. He states flatly &#8211; I&#8217;m not going anywhere.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not going anywhere without you<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not going anywhere without you<br \/>\nTrue story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song, with chords and lyrics, telling the true story of how the artist met her love \u2014 a serendipitous chain of a canceled early flight, a lost wallet, a rooftop party, a bus, and a nerdy opening line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[28,20],"project_tag":[156,155,119,70,85],"series":[],"class_list":["post-464","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","project_category-finding-zen","project_category-music","project_tag-guides","project_tag-how-we-met","project_tag-knowing","project_tag-love","project_tag-travel"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For romantics who love a great how-we-met story. 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