A magic moment 40 years ago

Summer of 1982. 
In my free time I used to earn a bit of money by playing piano once or twice a week at a bar cafe in Gan Binyamin in the Hadar Neighbourhood of Haifa .
I had a close friend then  - Eyal and Leopold

(Lupinda and Leopold)

 One day Eyal told me that his cousin (Philip) from Australia had come over and he wanted me to meet him.The following evening I went over to his studio flat to meet his cousin and it was then that I met my future wife for the first time (Orit). At Eyal's flat there were 2 girls, Orit and her cousin from the US (Laurie) Orit was actually Philip's date for the evening and the idea was to pair me up with Laurie.

We decided to go out and as I could get a discount at the bar where I played, we went to the pub at Gan Binyamin.

                      

Sitting at our table having ordered our coffees the four of us sat chatting about nothing and the only thing that was happening was that Orit and I were falling in love. There was electricity in the air ... a magnetism.
Orit and I hardly spoke and when we did it was trivial even banale - we put our hands palm down on the table and slowly but surely, not even looking at each other, our finger tips touched - it was like I had been struck by lightning and we remained like that for I don't know how long, neither of us wanting that magical moment to pass. The evening came to an end and Orit and I married 3 years later 

Balon and Balina 40 years ago 💖