When this encounter occurred I was 18 years old. The year was 1978.

It was the strangest and most exciting thing that has ever happened to me.

After the event, I told everyone I knew.

I was excited to tell everyone what happened to me. I spent two days

looking up anyone and everyone I knew to tell them the story and I actually thought that they would believe me.

How could I have been so wrong and so stupid to think anyone would believe the story?

I was laughed at and ridiculed by my friends and I was put off by family.

It was humiliating.

My parents even tried to get me to see a psychiatrist.

I'm now 58 years old. My wife knows about the encounter and so

do my four children who are now grown, but it was not I who told them. They found out by hearing it from others in my family so they could get a laugh at me.

It has been a joke since I was 18. I just smile and act like it's an everyday thing. They ask me about it now, but I will not say a word. I just tell my kids and my wife that it's an old joke and it's not really that funny.

Within three days of trying my best to tell this story, I stopped and have never mentioned it

again until now.

Why now?

Because I like the way you run this website, Cam.

It's the way you treat people.

No one in my family or circle of friends then and now will ever hear this.

They don't follow this topic on the internet.

I have to follow these encounter stories in secret, by the way.

In a way.

way, it's my shameful adulterous affair with the unknown.

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