@michelle.gent -- Overall, the story/fragment had pull -- I read it until the end. There's a lot of emotion emanating from the writing. The first sentence is also a very good hook (I would go for lower caps or italics instead of all caps, but hey each with their own style).
It’s been almost 37 years since that night and I have JUST wondered where he got my phone number from.
This was a well-done transition. And this sentence is laden with so many meanings. Just from this sentence alone you can tell that:
-the writer is tainting the memory with the goggles of wisdom/realism; that gives the whole thing a patina of nostalgia that people past 30 can relate to;
-the specificity of "37 years since" means that whatever happened had a very significant impact, otherwise the writer wouldn't remember it so well
What a great review! Thank you. You're (mostly) right.
I really have only just realised that I didn't give him my number way back then and I had to share that fact.
'whatever happened...' Well... that guy is my husband and we've been together since those heady days just after my sixteenth birthday :)