It was 4 am, and we were exhausted and half asleep in a bus station. We had been traveling for 18 hours. Suddenly, she gets up and sprints towards a toddler. Startled and confused, I just watched as she interacted with the child and walked it back to its mother.
She then sat with them for a while, entertaining the child as the mother rested. Later, I realized this child had wandered away from its sleeping mother and was about to eat something it found on the floor underneath a vending machine.
We were around 19 or 20, and this was the first time I found something “motherly” attractive, at that moment I realized I wanted to marry this woman. 20+ years later, we’re still together and our kids are about to start middle school.
