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HEARTBREAK
Stupid Things A Heartbreak Made Me Do
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In movies, I see whenever a woman experiences a heartbreak, she’s wearing pajamas, curled up on a couch, eating ice cream.
When I experienced my first heartbreak a few months before I turned 19, I was living in a dormitory and didn’t have a couch or ice cream for comfort. Instead, I went out and did something stupid that got me evicted from the dorm.
Let me first tell you what got me into this hot water.
To start with, I was already in trouble going out with a man 34 years my senior when I was only a high school junior in California. I met him during my spring break trip to Inner Mongolia. He was a 40ish-looking and fit Englishman with this typical British gentlemanly air and posh accent that you expect from a man of his country.
Our first encounter took place in a hotel bar where I was reading the book Gone With The Wind. That simple hotel didn’t have a coffee shop. He came up to me and asked if it was a good book. I was reluctant to answer, but I breathed the word “yes” like a whisper. He began asking me other questions that led us to talk about books and history, which were my favorite topics.
