Chicken soup for the teenage soul
作者： (美)Jack Canfield等编著;唐佳梅译注
出版社：安徽科学技术出版社,2006
简介：Soul Mates
I have often told my daughter, Lauren,the story of how her
father and I met and of our courtship. Now that she is 16 years
old,she is concerned because she realizes that her soul mate might
be sitting next to her in a class or might even ask her for a
date,and she is not quite ready to make the same commitment her
parents made years ago.
I met Mike on October 9,1964. Our shy eyes met from across.the
patio at our friend Andrea's party. We smiled and eventually found
ourselves in a conversation that lasted the entire evening, to the
exclusion of everyone else. I was 11 and he was 12. We went steady
three days later,which ended after a somewhat tumuhuous4 month.
Months later, Mike still invited me to his lavishs bar mitzvah
and even asked me to dance.(Years later he told me that despite my
braces,my skinny6 legs and my flipped7 hair,he thought I was
beautiful. )
Mike and I had many mutuals friends and were in the same
social group at school,so our paths constantly crossed throughout
the next few years. Every time I broke up with a boyfriend or had
my heart broken by another,my mother would say, "Don't
worry,you're going to end up with Mike Leb. "I would shriek,
"Never! Why would you think such a thing?"She would remind me how
his name often came up in my conversations and what a nice guy he
was.
Finally,I was in high school,and it was packed with new cute
guys. I was ready, what did I care if Mike started dating my best
friend?Why,I wondered,was this slowly driving me crazy? Why
did we find ourselves talking while waiting for our buses? I will
never forget the navy blue penny loafers3 he wore. Nobody else I
knew had such great shoes. My mother's words often came to my
mind,but I still wanted to erase4 them.
By the summer after tenth grade,Mike and I had spent more time
together--in the company ofs his girlfriend,also known as my best
friend,and others. That summer Mike left for a Spanish program in
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