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I met my first love at a class reunion seven years after we broke up.    He had a successful career, was holding his girlfriend's hand, and had a huge expensive diamond ring on his hand.    Everyone taunted me:‘You dumped Conrad, now you regret it, don't you? It's too late!’    But after dinner, Conrad drunkenly hugged me and cried:‘If you want to get back together, you can do it anytime.’  1 A class reunion is always a battleground for gossip to converge.    Not to mention the former couples in attendance, with the most disparate statuses being Conrad and me.    Everyone was

Reunited with My First Love After Seven Years Apart

I was definitely joking when I said that.


I even told Sally we would never come to this place again.


Unfortunately, as it turned out, I would have to break that promise once more.


Illness had decided to pay me another visit.


The winter in South City was different from previous years. Usually this time of year brought mostly sleet, but this year we got heavy snow.


I overheard the doctors and nurses at the hospital chatting about how unusually cold it was this year, and how the weather was becoming increasingly unpredictable.


The New Year was approaching. I gazed out the window at the bare tree branches, not a hint of green in sight.


I pressed my face against the cold glass, breathing out a cloud of fog.


Sometimes, I saw him standing down below.


"Does he do that every day? Isn't he cold?" Sally asked flatly as she walked by with a cup of hot milk.


"Oh, really? I'm sure he's fine," I replied.


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