This will sound sacrilegious, but it’s true. My fraternity had a “heaven or hell’ party, where you were supposed to come as something in one place or the other. I had no date, so I went as Christ Crucified; I took a couple of 2×4’s and made a cross; wore a robe and a beard, and made a big entrance to the party. A girl from next door, along with her roommates, crashed the party.
Since I had no date, and was standing by myself having a drink while the band played, they asked me what was going on. Anna stayed while her roommates left, she and I had a great night together.
She was a foreign student from Sweden. A month later, after the quarter had ended, I saw her having a big outdoor dinner at the place she moved to for the summer. It turned out it was midsummer night, and she and her Swedish friends were having a diner with lots of Aquavit. We ended up having another wild night. But next time I tried to find her, she’d gone back to Sweden.