Happy Birthday, Miriam Joy Triscritti. I Love You.


I met Miriam on a beach near Tallahassee in early July of 2002. My friend and I had driven to Florida during our week-long break from work to visit his grandmother/aunt/uncle. Halfway through the week we were out driving the jet boat in the gulf for most of the day, just having fun and joking around. We pulled it up to the shore next to where she was lying one last time before taking the boat back home. We walked down the beach opposite her and walked back. My friend Matt asked me to ask her if she wanted to ride in the boat before we took it home. I told him, "Naw, I'm not feeling that bold today.". When we got up to her, she had gotten into the water, and he waded up to her and started talking to her while I got in the boat and worked on getting it started. The two of them waded back to the boat and got in. I sat in the front and didn't say much to her. Matt talked her up and we drove around for a while, then showed her Matt's uncle's million dollar home. We took her back to the beach where she had been sunning and dropped her off. She got out and started gathering up her stuff to leave. Matt walked to the beach with her, then came back. I asked him if he asked for her number, and he said no. I told him to run and ask her, and he did. She gave him her number and told us to call her. We called her the next day, and she invited us to her church sponsored 4th of July picnic. We met her in town and went to the picnic where we sat around, not really doing much. We played volleyball with them, but mainly sat around, watching. The group decided to go to one of their house's and swim in their pool, so off to someone's house we went. We got to the house and sat by the pool while everyone else had fun. Matt and I were ready to go, so we said our goodbye and Miriam said to call her. We left thinking,"Damn that sucked.". We called her the next day and she said to come by her work when she got off and we'd do something. We sat for 30 minutes waiting on her before she was ready to go, then Matt let her drive his Golf around town. We went and got some rum and drove around looking for a hotel swimming pool to swim in. We finally found one to sneak in and Matt and Miriam swam around for like 10 minutes. We then drove to Wal-mart (which is mandatory at 3 am), and I pushed her around in a shopping cart. Getting kind of late, we went back to her parents house and drank for a while, giving massages to each other and talking about everything. While I was rubbing her shoulders, she kissed me. At that moment, I was in love. We hung out for a while more, then we left. The next day, she came to where we were staying and hung out with me until she had to go to work. We were leaving the next day, and we said we'd keep in touch. That's how we met. It was the best thing that has ever happened to me. Now she's gone.