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A boy's love

A boy's love

By Roberta CasabarPublished 3 years ago 12 min read

Today is just a love story. It's a story about a boy who died at the age of 30. Thirteen years of love

That man is my husband. His Spanish name is Jose, and I gave him a Chinese name called He

Jose, the name is really for ease of writing, but if you know him, you'll agree that he should be called and

But he said that the word "xi" is true

It was too difficult for him to learn, so I taught him to write this "Jose" that I shouted out.

Such a handsome boy!

Jose was barely eighteen when I met him, and I was at a friend's house one Christmas night when he came along

Some of my Chinese friends congratulate Christmas.

There is a custom in Spain that at twelve o 'clock on Christmas Eve, neighbors will leave their neighbors upstairs and downstairs

The home congratulates and says, "Peace." A little like our Chinese custom of New Year. Jose was just running down the stairs,

When I first saw him, I was shocked and thought, how could there be such a handsome boy in the world? If one day can

To be his wife would be a satisfaction in vanity. That was my first impression of him. After a while,

I used to go to this friend's house, and Jose lived nearby, and there was a big yard in the back of this apartment, and we used to

They often play baseball there, have snowball fights on snowy days, and sometimes go to garage sales together. I don't have much money in my pocket,

Used to shop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., probably just one bird feather, Jose's senior year, my junior year of college.

Cousin Lelo!

One day when I was reading in my college dormitory, my Spanish friend came to me and said, "Echo, your cousin downstairs

Coming to you." "Cousin" means derisive in Spanish, and they kept calling out "Cousin come! Cousin to come

Lo!"

I feel very strange, I don't have a cousin, then the cousin is in Spain? So I went out on the balcony and I saw

The boy, Jose, had a few books in his arms, and in his hand was holding his French hat, which he used to wear

.

Because he was very young, he did not dare to enter the drawing room. So he stood waiting for me under a big tree outside the academy. I hurried to see him

I hurried down and when I got to him, I was still a little angry. I pushed him and said, "Why are you here?" He's not talking. I

Then he asked, "Aren't your classes finished yet?" He replied, "Not the last two." I asked again, "You

To what?" Because I always feel much older than him, so always in a sister tone to lecture him. He is in

He took fourteen shekels (about seven NT dollars at the time) out of his pocket and said:

"I have fourteen dollars, just enough for two. Shall we go to the cinema together? But to walk there,

Because there is no fare." I glanced at him. I am a very sensitive person and think there is something wrong with this child

I tried, but I agreed and suggested seeing a movie at a nearby theater so I didn't need a fare. The next day he

The third day, the fourth day...

So the little boy under the tree, who always held a French hat in his hand and did not put it on, became one of our dormitory

Joke, they always shout: "cousin come again!" Every time I ran downstairs, I had to push Jose or hit him

Say:

"Don't come again, it won't do to skip class like that!" Because he always missed the last two classes, but he still always

Come to me. Because neither of them had any money, they walked the streets, sometimes visited the palace, and scavenged the garbage

"Will be surprised to say:" Look at this nail is so beautiful yo! Wow! Look at this..." Gradually I felt that

The relationship couldn't go any further because the boy was serious, and he couldn't help me because he was in college

Not yet, but to be honest, I really like him.

You give me six more years!

One day, when it was very cold and we had no place to go, we moved the bench across the street to the air outlet of the bus.

When we get out of the car and pass by, a hot wind blows out, which is our heating. Two men frozen on that bench like beggars

The sample. Then I said to Jose, "You don't come to me today." Why would I say something like that to him? Because of him

Sat beside me very seriously and said to me: "Wait for me six years, let me four years of college, two years of military service, six years later I

We can get married. All my life, all I ever wanted was a small apartment with a wife like you, and then I

To earn money to support you is the happiest dream of my life." He added: "I don't get the warmth of a family in my own home

" When I heard his dream, I suddenly had a burst of tears impulse, I said to him: "Jose, you are only 18 years old

I am much older than you, I hope you don't have this dream anymore, from today on, don't come to me again, if you stand in that

Under the tree, I won't come out again, because six years is too long, I don't know where I will go, I don't

You'll wait six years. Listen to me and do not come to pester me. If you do, I will be afraid." "He asked, stunned

"Have I done something wrong these days?" I said, "You have done nothing wrong. Why am I telling you this

It's too good for you. I don't want to go on with you. ' Then I stood up, and he followed me, and we walked together

I went to a park in the Royal Palace in Madrid. There was a small slope in the park. I said to him, "I am standing here to watch you go

The last time I saw you, you're never coming back."

"I'll just stand here and watch you go," he said. I said, "No! No! No! I'm standing here watching you go, and you're gonna

Listen to me, you can never come back."

At that time, I was afraid that he would haunt me again, so I said, "You don't bother me either. From now on, I want to talk to my class

Male students go out, can't go out with you."

I was nervous again because I was afraid of hurting a young man in his first love, and usually the first love is always

Fragile. And he said, "All right! I will not haunt you, and you must not treat me as a child, for we are few

You have been treating me like a child all these weeks, and you have said, 'You must stop pestering me,' and I have thought,

I'll never bother you unless you let me."

After saying that, it was very late. He began to run slowly, running back, back, face

Still smiling and Shouting, "Goodbye Echo! Goodbye Echo!" I stood there watching him, Madrid is very few

It snowed, but that night it snowed. Jose ran up the big grassy slope, waving his French hat and still

But frequently back, I stood there to see Jose gradually disappeared in the dark night and white snow, when I almost

He could not help Shouting: "Jose! Come back!" But I didn't say. Later whenever I see a dream of the red chamber Bao Yu monk that

A scene, always think of Jose 18 years old in the open snow, how to run, calling my name: "Ech

o Bye! Goodbye EAcho!"

After he left, he did not come to me or bother me again. I was in the street when I went out with some other students

I often meet him, and when he sees me he takes my hands in the Spanish manner, kisses my face, and says: "Hello

!"

I said, "Jose! Hello, this is my boyfriend XX." He would shake hands with someone.

He grew a beard and grew up!

After six years of such separation, I finished my studies and left Spain to return to Taiwan. Come while you are in Taiwan

A friend in Spain, he said:

"Do you remember that Jose?" I said, "Yes!" He said, "Oh! He's different now,

I grew a beard and grew up." 'Really! He added:

'I have here a letter from him and a photograph. Would you like to see it?' I was surprised to say: "Good!"

Because I was still thinking about him, but my friend said, "He says you shouldn't read this if you've forgotten about him

Now." "God knows," I replied, "I have not forgotten this man, but I think he is younger than me, since he is serious

Don't hurt him." I took the letter from my friend, and out of it fell a photograph of a man

A young man with a beard and swimming trunks caught fish in the sea. I immediately said, "That's the god of the sea in Greek mythology!

"I opened the letter, which said:" After all these years, perhaps you have forgotten Spanish, but I will tell you one

A secret, in my eighteen years old that snowy night, you told me, you no longer see me, you know that the young sleeper flow

A night of tears and suicidal thoughts? Do you remember me after all these years? My appointment with you is for six years." That's it

I put the letter aside and said to the friend, "You tell him I got this letter

Please thank him for me." Half a year later, I left Taiwan and went back to Spain after experiencing some emotional difficulties.

Jose, I'm back!

Jose was serving his last month in the army, and Jose's sister kept asking me to write to Jose, and I said, "I'm not

How do you write Spanish now?" Then she forced the envelope to be written, stating that I would only fill in the words inside, so I did

A letter in English went to the camp and said: "Jose! I'm back, I'm Echo, I'm at the... address." result

The letter spread all over the camp, but no one knew English. So he wrote and said, "I don't know what I'm talking about, so I can't write back.

Here, he cut up cartoons of divers and sent them to me, and pointed one out and said, "This is me." I didn't reply.

"And Jose made a long distance call from the south:

"I'm going back to Madrid on the 23rd. Wait for me!" On the twenty-third day I forgot all about it and joined the other

I went to a town to play, and when I came home, my roommate told me that a boy had called me a dozen times, and I thought

I thought about it, but I couldn't remember it was that boy looking for me. Just then I got a call from my girlfriend, a lady

She said she had an urgent matter to discuss with me and wanted me to take a taxi to her place. I took a taxi to her house, and she took

I took her into the drawing-room and told me to close my eyes. I didn't know what trick she was going to play. She clenched her fists and put her hands behind her back

Put animals in my hands to scare me. When I closed my eyes, I heard a footstep coming towards me, and then the lady

Said she was going out, but told me to keep my eyes closed. Suddenly, a pair of arms wrapped around me behind my back, and I shivered.

I opened my eyes and saw Jose standing in front of me. I screamed with excitement. I happened to be wearing a floor-length dress that day

She was wearing a jujube red pullover. He circled me, his long dress flying, and I screamed and punched him

"And couldn't resist taking his face and kissing him. The people standing outside the living room laughed heartily because, as we all know, Hos and I

West is not boyfriend and girlfriend, but the relationship is very good.

Six years after I said I would say goodbye to Jose, fate brought me back to him.

Do you still want to get married?

One afternoon in Madrid, Jose invited me to his house. It was dusk in his room, he said

"Look at the wall!" I looked up, and the whole wall was covered with enlarged black and white photos of me yellowed, and on the photos, cut short

I am printed in the blinds through the lines of light. Look at the photos, I was silent for a long time, asked Jose

"I never sent you pictures. Where did you get them?" He said, "At Uncle Xu's house. You often send

They'd see it, they'd put it in a cardboard box, and when I went to their house, I'd steal their pictures and get them

The museum would enlarge the negatives and then secretly put the original back in the box." I asked, "Your family goes out

How do you say Jin Jin?" "They said I was crazy, that the person had disappeared and was still obsessed with her picture." I

Then he asked, "Why are all these photos yellow?"

He said, "Well! I couldn't help it when the sun was shining on it, so I put the blinds down, but they were striped, and

It does." "Said, a look of guilt, I took down a photo on the wall, a piece of white wall

Mark. I turned to Jose and asked, "Do you still want to get married?" Now it was his turn to freeze, as if I were a ghost.

He stared at me for a long time, and I said, "You said six years? I am standing before you now." Suddenly I couldn't bear it

She began to cry and said, "No, no." "Why?" he asked. Why not?" At that time my

I said to him, "Why didn't you want me then? If you insist on having me then

I'm still a good person. I came back today with a broken heart." He said, "A broken heart can be made up with glue

Come on." I said, "After gluing, there is still a seam." He took my hand to his chest and said, "There's another one over here.

It's made of gold. Give me yours, and let's exchange it."

We were married seven months later.

I just feel like there's a plan, and I thank God for giving me six years of this wonderful life, as I once wrote in a book

"I had never been madly in love before I got married, but when I got married, I had so much confidence that my

My hand was in his, and then I realized that I had made the right decision." If he continues to live, I will still say that I am not interested in this marriage

Rock in never regrets. So I think age, economy, nationality and even knowledge are not the conditions to choose a mate, of course

Of course, these conditions are important, but I think the most important, or each other's character and soul, this is me

We have to stress the so-called "family" things.

You won't die, you won't die...

Jose was thirty years old when he died. I used to ask him, "How will you die?" He also asked me, "How are you going to die?"

I always say, "I won't die." I was once asked by Bibliophile magazine to write an article "If you had three months to live, would you

What to do?" I showed the invitation letter to Jose and said casually, "Who knows what people do when they die

!" He said: "This topic is so strange!" I still continued to knead dough, Jose asked me: "Do you write this manuscript

Write! What are you going to do three months before you die, and how are you going to write about it?" I continued to knead the dough and said, "First let me

Finish kneading the dough!" "Are you going to write it or not?" He asked, and I turned and looked at Jose with my batter

Put his hand through his hair and said to him, "Fool! I won't, because I have to make dumplings for you." And with that said, I

And continuing to knead the dough, Jose suddenly put his hand

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