Fifty-Nine Encounters with Her

He and she have known each other for ten years. He has always liked her, and she knows it. It's not that she doesn't love him, exactly, but they never got together. If feelings were scored out of 100, with 60 points marking the start of love and anything below 58 counting as pure friendship, then the feelings between them would score 59. A score of 59, and 59 encounters: who knows whether they'll ever reach a happy ending? What I want to tell you is the story of their 59 encounters, each one a moment of “loving but never having, yet meeting again”…