Hi,
This is the first time I have ever felt "in love" with someone so I hope I don't make an idiot out of myself typing this.
The girl I am talking about is a previous schoolmate of mine, and... I didn't feel anything at first sight, but after spending some time in the same classes as her I felt like I was absolutely in love with her (I said "feel" because I don't know if it's truly love). Unfortunately, I was not really able to become good friends with her, one of the reasons being that I was suffering from social anxiety. Thanks to therapy and such I was able to make something of a recovery, and now I am socially healthy. Unfortunately, by the time I felt I was confident enough to do things like strike up conversations, she had already graduated.
So, it had been a while since I had last seen her when one day I was bored enough to look up my own name on Google... anyway, one of the hits was related to the school I was at and happened to have both my name and hers on it. Well... I felt sort of guilty/stalkerish at first, but I really wanted to find out what she had been up to so I did a Google search for her name and found some pages with her name on them, one of which had her e-mail address.
*sigh*
I wish I could have just talked to her when we were at school together, but alas...
I know what school she is at now, so I know she's still in town... and I want to meet up with her again. Any kind of meeting at all, even if its with some other people, I couldn't care less. I just want to know her better... but it looks like the only way I have of contacitng her is by e-mail.
Anyway, that's the whole story; I need to write a letter to her and try to set up some sort of meeting. But this is where I need help... it's not that I can't write, it's just that I have never done ANYTHING like this before. I am not sure exactly what to say in the letter , I just know I don't want to sound rude, pretentious, or desperate...
So, basically, I need some advice with this message. Any advice at all on what to put in it and what not to put in it. I think I have been putting this off until now because I am afraid of rejection... but then I remind myself, she is very friendly (one of the traits that made me like her), so even if she says no she'll say it nicely (and I'll at least feel like I tried)
Thanks
~CF