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Alex Duran
Alex Duran

 

My First Love

The first time that I came here I met an American girl. She was so beautiful and cute. She was the same age that I was at that time, 19. I met that cute girl because my cousin invited me to a party so I went with him. The first time that I saw her, she was sitting around a pool and I was drinking a beer. I wanted to talk to her but I didn’t speak English well. I was so nervous, but I decided to talk to her. So I just walked to her and I said, “Hi” too. The next hours we were talking. I didn’t know how but we did. When we were talking, I could note the difference between American people and Latin people. The way she spoke was really different from a Latin girl. She was really expressive and funny, maybe because she spoke English well. I was really shy and quiet, maybe because I couldn’t speak English well. We made good friends at the party because she gave me her phone number and the next days we went to hang out for a while and the next two weeks she was my girlfriend. I don’t have any idea how we communicated, but we did it.

That relationship was really cool because I could see how American people live. It is different from Latin people in this country. She was independent from her parents. She liked to do things that Latin girls don’t like to do, like listening to rock music, going to a bar to drink or going to rock concerts. Our relationship was something special because she was dating me, a Latin girl and I was dating her, a white Italian girl of my dreams. That girl was my first love in this country. Unfortunately, we broke up because our relationship had a lot of problems. First of all, her parents didn’t like me. I began to work and I didn’t have enough time to see her, so she was very unhappy with that because every time that she wanted to see me, I was working or busy, so she got angry with me for that and we finished fighting for stupid problems.

The girl was something special for me. I hated my life because I lost her. But with the coming days I could forget her. With this relationship I learned a lot for my life, because that was a new experience for me. I hope that some day I find that cute girl because I would like to be her boyfriend again. It is really hard to find a girl like her. I think that’s why I have been single since I broke up with her because I am waiting for a special girl that has the same style and personality that my first love has.

 

 

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