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Adulthood - How I met my spouse (4 stories selected)

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The First Night (story 1 of 4)

Author: Zalmay Basharyar
Date: April 22, 2007
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All the day I was thinking about her. In the day time, everyone was looking at me, or I felt it so, and it made me nervous. Still her thoughts did not quit me. How does she look? How shall I talk to her? And how her response will be? I had not met her, only seen her once before the engagement. It was three years ago and now the wedding was approached and I was meeting her after just a few hours.

My friends had told me that the first night was always horrible. First, according to them, relat...

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Love in a Cone (story 2 of 4)

Author: Barbara Russo
Date: October 4, 2006
Rating: 4.2 stars from 6 votes

It was a day like any other day, well at least it started out that way. I opened the store but business was quiet. Nothing unusual there as it was an ice cream store in Boston in January.

Customers trickled in throughout the day, but there was one customer who caught my eye. He ordered an almond cream frappe. He was friendly and we started chatting -- about the weather (always a topic in Boston) and why he likes almond cream ice cream.

Over the next two months, he came into the store about...

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A Chance Encounter (story 3 of 4)

Author: G. B.
Date: October 4, 2006
Rating: 4.5 stars from 11 votes

I’m a romantic sort of guy. I always imagined meeting my wife in a European art museum. We’d see each other across the gallery and simply be drawn to each other. We would spend time in cafes, drinking strong coffee, discussing novels and poetry, falling in love.

I saved as much as I could during my senior year at college so that I could see both London and Paris but I came up short. I had shared my dream with my Mom – who is a bit of a romantic herself – and when I told her I didn’t have...

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Buckwheat Mystery Man (story 4 of 4)

Author: K. M.
Date: October 4, 2006
Rating: 3.0 stars from 5 votes

I was invited to a Halloween party by a girlfriend who was in turn girlfriends with one of the men living at the "Party House". We had a great time. In fact, I met a great guy at the party (dressed as Buckwheat from Little Rascals) but ending up leaving without his having a good idea of who I was or how to contact me.

As luck would have it, the girlfriend of my friend threw a party of her own and - lo and behold - my friend Buckwheat was at that party. It turned out he was dating my friend's...

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