Long, long time ago...sometime during the late summer or early fall of 2001 I was nearing the end of my exciting adventure with the Work and Travel. Oh, the best time of my life...No worries, no thoughts about future, no major responsibilities, just taking it a day at a time. I was working in a hotel in beautiful Lake Placid, NY, where this guy was staying for a couple of days. I forgot why he approached me, probably the accent and stuff(well, the usual); so we got talking, and talking, and talking...I believe there was some sort of a mutual attraction, whether physical, emotional, cultural, or intellectual. Or simple curiosity? But I had never dwelled on that. Then it was time for him to go back home, to NYC. Since my stay in the country was temporary(that's what I believed then, lol), I didn't have a home phone or a cell phone, so he suggested we exchange e-mail addresses instead, and so we did. We did share a few e-mails, then I started dating my now ex-husband, and the communication with this charming guy from NYC somehow just fizzled out. Life went on, picking up speed by the minute, and soon I forgot about him, deleting his e-mail address eventually. But I would never forget his name, it had such a musical sound to it. Since then I've thought of him randomly, whenever word "piazza" came up, since that word would forever be associated with him in my brain. There were no recent occurrences. Till a few nights ago...I was doing something online with the TV on the background(and I rarely turn TV on while at home, I'm more of a movies and books kinda girl), it was HBO and I just randomly glanced up, when my eyes caught the name on the bottom, Vincent Piazza; I looked up and saw HIM, at an opening of a new HBO show. It just hit me! So the next thing I do, is google him up, and there he was...Actor Vincent Piazza. My first though was that it was someone else, because he never mentioned acting back then when we met. But I guess he turned into acting in 2005 when his hockey career at Villanova came to an abrupt end only after a year due to recurring shoulder injury. Since then he's been in a few indie movies, some shows, a couple of appearances on The Sopranos, and now he's playing Lucky Luciano in the new biopic HBO series directed by Martin Scorsese called "Boardwalk Empire". I'm surprised...he's just so natural at this, so talented. After watching an interview with Vincent, I was pleased to see the same humble charm, humor...he still seems to be grounded and down to earth. And I believe the chances are he'll stay that way regardless of all this new coming fame. Random people in our lives...
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