Agnese Di Girolamo, where are you?

A few days ago a post, which I had contributed to, concerning Old Mill's outdoor production of Romeo and Juliette, was visited by someone called Agnese, who expressed the wish that she could have seen it. She signed off with 'Tim, how are you?'

Now, the only Agnese I know of is the beautiful young Italian interpreter that I met and fell for in London twenty years ago. Circumstances dictated that our affair was fraught with difficulty, mostly because she was only in London periodically and I, a struggling and poverty-stricken artist, was unable to travel to Italy be with her. Love affairs rarely succeed via correspondence alone and, inevitably, ours fizzled out and became nothing but a pleasant memory.

Now, out of the blue, comes this very short message to me from, I can only presume, the very same Agnese . . . which was quite a surprise. I imagine that she's found this website, looked at a few posts that interest her, and recognised my name and my picture in one of them - namely the aforementioned post about R&J.

As things work out, I'd been having difficulty with changing my signature picture because the system didn't seem to want to accept anything I chose and I was trawling through old photographs to see if I could find one that it WOULD accept. It appeared that I wasn't going to have any luck and gave up . . . BUT, next time I logged in, this current picture appeared and I thought "well, it isn't the one I really would have wanted, but I'm not going through all of that rigmarole again" and decided to leave it for a while, even if it's thirty years old and I don't really look like that any more. Lucky though, that I did decide to keep it there, otherwise Agnese might have recognised the name, but looked at a more recent picture and thought "no, that isn't him", and finally signed off without further comment.

Now, I'm not about to try and start something up again after all these years. We've both moved on and there's been an awful lot of water under the bridge. However, I'm certainly curious at this unexpected turn of events and would at least like to catch up with Agnese for a chat about what we're both doing nowadays. Is that just silly on my part, and should I just let it go? I really don't know, but that curiosity sure does nag!

So . . . Agnese, if you browse this website occasionally and happen to see this, then either leave a message here or register so that you can send me a Private Message. No strings attached of course, but it would be nice to at least say hello!

And to everyone else . . . my apologies for taking up space with a post unrelated to theatre. But I hope you understand my curiosity - you'd be curious, wouldn't you?