I wanted to get her on the phone. Our text conversations had been going great so far. Feelings were definitely starting to grow, and I wanted to know if it was just me. It's so easy to misunderstand the emotions behind a text message. But I had no clue how to "smoothly" say "Hey! Can I call you?"... What started as a simple "can I borrow 35 minutes of your time to just listen to my talk", (all of which in a language that she does not speak yet agreed to hear me out anyway) turned into hours long Zoom conversation. All our other plans were thrown out the window since neither one of us wanted to leave the call. We just could not stop talking, sharing, and (for her) grinning like a Cheshire Cat. The level of reciprocation made my head hurt; I couldn't sleep and was in a daze for a solid week after. And so with my mind abuzz and heart aflutter, I texted one of my guys early the next morning: "We gotta talk. She's the one..."