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with that I needed to get her out of my system (largely due to the fact that all along she was engaged to someone else) I had hoped to be able to heal and move forward with my life... maybe even find myself a woman who wasn't already spoken for and who wouldn't encourage me to get so wrapped up in her very being. I told this woman not to visit me anymore, not to email me anymore and not to call me anymore. This was back in August of '02. The next month, on Labor Day, my cell phone rang one and a half times then stopped. "Missed Call" appeared in the display and then her cell number flashed in my face. Since that day, on random dates and at random times either my cell phone or my office phone would display an incoming call that was "missed". Sometimes the number was her cell phone. Sometimes the number was her home phone. Most of the time, however, these numbers were random. In doing reverse searches of these numbers, I often came up empty. Then it occurred to me that these numbers just MIGHT be payphones in different locations. I really had little doubt as to who was doing this, but I didn't know why, other than to keep letting me know, as a reminder, that "someone" was out there. So I typed "payphone numbers" into Google and found the Payphone Project. Very cool! I had decided to log each and every missed call with perhaps the notion of letting a certain fiance know about his beloved's activities... but whatever, I just thought that I'd best keep a record of these numbers and, whenever possible, note the location from which each call was made. While an exact number would not appear in the Project's list, I would often get something so close that I could narrow down the probable locations to within a block or two. Last night, I found two payphones matching two of the many numbers I've collected (there are 39 thus far since Labor Day). It is my desire to submit these two numbers to the Payphone Project's data base. These payphones are on the platform of the subway station where this "non-mystery" woman catches her train to go to work. ************************************* Payphones on the Manhattan-bound platform of the New York City "C" line at Lafayette Ave in Brooklyn: 718-625-8059 718-625-8942 ************************************* The healing process has been a long one and it's made even longer by these reminders I keep getting. What is she trying to tell me? Well, in the meantime, I'll send you more payphone locations as I discover them myself. |
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get a new one. Phone rang two nights ago at 10:00... and again last night (this morning) at 2:00. I still go through the motions of trying to pinpoint where these calls are coming from... and I guess that it says something less-than-flattering about me if I actually bother to do that. The one at 10pm came from a number I'd logged two months ago. A repeat number! Actually, that has happened more than once since I wrote the story above. She seems to have a couple of "favorite phones". I do find it curious that most of these calls come to me near the top of an hour. I haven't figured that part out yet. So anyway... 9 months since the break-up, my phone still rings and I'm still reminded. |