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short termism

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A sharply frosty new year’s morning. Glowing from a sociable celebration in my local pub, stumbling homeward bound along Love Lane with my first, second and third boyfriend. One boy, a ringer for James Dean:

James Dean Ringer (JDR): will you marry me?

17 yr wendy: Oh! Yes! after I’ve finished my A levels and got my degree

JDR: Why? Why can’t we get married this summer?

wendy: marriage is for life – we’ve got a lifetime to get married. Waiting 4 years is nothing as part of a whole life time. We’ll be able to save up for a home together and I’ll be able to get a job to help out financially

JDR: If you don’t want to marry me this summer, then it’s over

wendy: Huh? Are you serious? I’ll love you whether we’re married or not. I’m not going to marry you as a way to stop you from leaving! If you’re going to leave, you’ll leave, if you want to stay, you’ll stay

I never saw him again. It broke my heart because I didn’t understand how he could propose a lifetime together one moment then leave in the next. Most baffling. In the following years he sent valentines cards from four different continents. I remember him fondly…

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This scribble was published on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012. You can follow any banter on this scribble with the RSS 2.0 feed. You can share your inspired musings after typing the anti spam word near the bottom of the page. But no Pinging because its too naughty.

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  1. Kay Guest writes:
    February 14th, 2012

    Wendy,
    You were only 17? Goodness me, I would have thought he was kidding! What is the English expression… “pull the other one”.
    Happy Valentine’s Day!

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  2. Scarlet writes:
    February 14th, 2012

    I too am baffled by this one…. I wonder where he is now?
    Sx

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  3. Grumps writes:
    February 15th, 2012

    I, too, remember and wonder.

    I wonder who’s kissing her now,
    Wonder who’s teaching her how?
    Wonder who’s looking in to her eyes?
    Breathing sighs!
    Telling lies!
    I wonder if she’s got a boy?
    The girl who once filled me with joy,
    Wonder if she ever tells him of me?
    I wonder who’s kissing her now?

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  4. wendy writes:
    February 15th, 2012

    wonder full!

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