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1、College sweethearts 1?I smile at my two lovely daughters and they seem so much more mature than we, their parents, when we were college sweethearts.Linda, who's 21, had a boyfriend in her freshman year she thought she would marry, but they're not together anymore.?Melissa, who's 19, hasn't had a st

2、eady boyfriend yet.?My daughters wonder when they will meet "The One", their great love.?They think their father and I had a?classic?fairy-tale?romance?heading for marriage from the outset.?Perhaps, they're right but it didn't seem so at the time.?In a way, love just happens when you least expect it

3、.?Who would have thought that?Butch?and I would end up getting married to each other??He became my boyfriend because of my shallow agenda: I wanted a?cute?boyfriend! 2?We met through my college roommate at the university cafeteria.?That fateful night, I was merely curious, but for him I think it wa

4、s love at first sight.?"You have beautiful eyes", he said as he?gazed?at my face.?He kept staring at me all night long.?I really wasn't that interested for two reasons.?First, he looked like he was a really wild boy, maybe even dangerous.?Second, although he was very cute, he seemed a little?weird.

5、 3?Riding on his bicycle, he'd ride past my dorm as if "by accident" and pretend to be surprised to see me.?I liked the attention but wascautious?about his wild,?dynamic?personality.?He had a charming way with words which would?charm?any girl.?Fear came over me when I started to fall in love.?His ex

6、citing "bad boy image" was just too?tempting?to resist.?What was it that attracted me??I always had an excellent?reputation.?My concentration was solely on my studies to get?superior?grades.?But for what??College is supposed to be a time of great learning and also some fun.?I had nearly achieved a g

7、reat education, and graduation was just one?semester?away.?But I hadn't had any fun; my life was?stale?with no?component?of fun!?I needed a boyfriend.Not just any boyfriend.?He had to be cute.?My goal that semester became: Be?ambitious?and grab the cutest boyfriend I can find. 4?I worried what he'd

8、 think of me.?True, we lived in a time when a dramatic shift in?sexual?attitudes was taking place, but I was a traditional girl who wasn't ready for the new ways that seemed common on campus.?Butch looked?superb!?I was not?immune?to his personality, but I was scared.?The night when he announced to t

9、he world that I was his girlfriend, I went along with him.?And then I suddenly thought: "Oh my gosh! Am I his girlfriend? How did that happen?"?Then he whispered sweet words in my ear and said, "I'm going to marry you one day and I will be a lawyer. You will see." 5?I was laughing inside and said t

10、o myself, "I'd never marry this guy. He's a rebel without a good future. He's my boyfriend because I hate my boring student life. I just want to have fun." 6?Sure enough, the following month, I found out he had failed all his courses.?Consequently, he was going to be expelled from the university.?T

11、o my?disgust, he seemed resigned to his fate.?I knew there was hope, so I led him to the college secretary for reconsideration. 7?"You are going to graduate with a BA in political science from?UPenn?and?proceed?to the College of Law," I told him,?lodging?an appeal on his?behalf, which was?approved.

12、?Butch was?granted?reconsideration.?And, once we became steadies, he?coordinated?his studies and social life, passing all of his classes.?He eventually studied law. 8?Despite Butch's somewhat wild character, at his?core, he is always a perfect gentleman and?deserves?a lot of credit for that.?True,

13、he'd sometimes take the?liberty?of?displaying?his love by planting a kiss on my lips right in front of my astonished friends who watched and?disapproved.?But the truth is we had a pure and responsible relationship for seven full years.?Sitting by the?palm?trees, hand in hand, we would listen to roma

14、ntic songs, watch the sunset, and?weave?dreams of being together with children of our own, forever. 9?Two years passed in a?blur.?One day, Butch took me by surprise as he?knelt?down and?proposed?marriage holding a dozen red roses!?Filled with deep emotion, I?confessed?my love for him, "How roooomaa

15、aantic!!"?Then my brain woke up from fantasy land.?I cried out, "Good heavens. No! We're too young to tie the?knot. We haven't even graduated from college yet!"?I really loved him but waspessimistic?about our chances for success. 10?We married five years later. 11?Our?faithful?journey of love and

16、learning took us down rocky roads of hardship and on smooth easy-going highways.?It is a long, romantic, sometimes crazy, love story that sums up a 29-year long?honeymoon?together as a couple who are still madly in love with each other.?Our love?commenced?with a casual attraction but?bloomed?into a mature love and rich life.