The beginning of Francesco and I's relationship, our story.

When I first saw Francesco, I was 11 years old at my dance studio.

I was a ballerina and Francesco was the break dancer.

I was mirrored by him.

I thought he was so handsome.

I loved the way that he danced and smiled.

Just the way that he interacted with everybody.

I was shy and I was insecure at this age.

I was not the best dancer in the room.

I was always in the back of the line.

I really was never the front girl in front and center.

I just didn't really feel like I was good at anything.

I really lacked a huge amount of self confidence and I could not find it in me to go up to him

and say, hi, my name is Caitlin.

That's all I really wanted to do.

I just simply wanted to introduce myself to him but I couldn't find it in me to do it.

I would go home after dance and think about the fact that I need to go up to him and say

something.

I need to make that step for me so I could just feel better.

I never ended up getting the opportunity to do so.

The long story short was that his parents took him out of the dance studio because he had

bad grades and I never saw him again.

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