Someone To Swing Dance With

Recently, a nice guy friend said something to me along the lines of, "You're more mature and ready for marriage than most girls," which I think is patently untrue as the current state of my untidy bedroom would prove. Besides it's not what I want right now. My life is pretty near to perfect as it is. I like being young, healthy, and comparatively well-off, living in a beautiful city, with my own apartment, many friends, and a happy, busy, wholesome social life. I'd like to do this for a few more years. Right now, I'm not looking for a boyfriend, much less a husband. But every now and then, when the lonely blues strike, there is something I wish for.

I'd like someone to dance with. I recently found out that the Kennedy Center offers free swing dancing lessons every week, and I thought, Well that sounds just about dreamy. I love swing dancing and I especially love free. But the problem is, who could I go with? Sure, I could get a group of guys and girls together, but we would inevitably have more of one gender and it would be awkward, plus that makes it such a general experience. What I would like is to go to the classes regularly, maybe every one if I could, with the same person, and get really good at dancing with him. But there isn't a person like that in my life right now. Just an endless parade of passing faces, people who are completely replaceable, transitory, ephemeral, and gone.