When I was 7 years old my family got a paid television system for my house, it was awesome.
One night I decided to stay up late watching Disney Channel, I was never the "cartoon" kid, DBZ and Sailor Moon was nope at the time (I still watched them later in early 2000's), same with saint seiya, but that movie I saw that night was something else.
Of course, not being used to stay up late, I fell asleep at half of the movie.
After that I remember spending every night for like 2 months on that same channel waiting for that same movie, until it happened, the movie's name was "Kiki's Delivery Service". I fell in love with it, and up to this point, it's still my favorite anime movie ever.
1 year later we changed to another cable system, one which had "Locomotion", at the same time we got our first PC (Windows 95 I remember, it was awesome) with Internet (It was so sloooooow), I learned what Anime truly was, and with the help of Locomotion and Kiki's Delivery Service I fell 100% in love with it.
That was 17 years ago.
And I still love Anime