First impressions! Good sign to indicate how a relationship might develop. For anyone reading this story wondering if it is true, some literary license may be attributed to the story and poems, but the author's take is that it is how it is remembered. The story, which takes place in the '70's, springs from those remembrances of this special person. He impressed her and her young daughter at their first meeting and in the weeks and months that followed. He was a talented musician with a distinctive peaceful bearing . They had a mutual appeal for one another that became more obvious with time.