Cupids Dating Blog

Our first date was the test date. We wanted to see if we were right for each other. It was just like any other first date, I suppose. I didn't know a whole lot about relationships back then, but I had an idea of what I might want. I knew that I wanted to be able to communicate with a partner and so I was wary of how that might go with this pretty deaf girl.

On one of our dates, she told me she had a surprise for me. I had asked her about how she enjoyed music, so she decided to show me. We went to her apartment, where she showed me her extensive record collection (yes, it was that long ago). What she would do was place her hands on one speaker, her cheek on another and feel the vibrations.

"Each of the instruments recorded by this disc (and I have touched and understood each of them) creates the sound that you hear through resonance. Each instrument is made of a different material and they all reverberate in their individual ways", she told me. "Sound is merely a vibration that your ears translate into specific notes that you understand in a certain way that may or may not be real. But touch is real."

It was then that she instructed me to lay my hands on the speakers in the way that she had done. I closed my eyes and allowed myself to feel the music in a way that I'd never done before and began to understand more completely what music was all about.

We both had a laugh at how I had been shown how to really appreciate music by a pretty deaf girl. She was charming and sweet, but in the end, we both went our separate ways. I don't know if she ever thinks of me, but for my part, I'll never forget her.