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HOUSE Alsira Valderrama Methuen Adult Learning Center HOUSE ALSIRA VALDERRAMA 100
IN SEARCH OF THE IDEAL LOVE CRISTINA NUNEZ Cristina Nunez With perseverance and optimism, it is possible to achieve everything that one proposes in life. Always, I dreamed to fine real love, to have my own home and my own family. Until I was forty years old, my dreams didn’t materialize. My life was boring with the same routine, and I was feeling tired of the same thing. I needed to make some major change in my life. Everybody in my family was calling me the “solterona,” the word that means that I was never going to leave and get married. Sometimes, I said to myself, “I know that in some place in the world there is a wonderful man waiting for me.” That filled me with optimism to keep on dreaming of the ideal love. Everything began from the moment I won a Caribbean Cruise. I started imagining what I would do on the trip. I materialized the idea by making a collage of photos of an ideal couple. I placed this collage in my room so I could see it daily. For one reason or another, the cruise liner did not give me the trip. I felt a bit sad and disappointed, but I said to myself, “For a reason, it happened this way.” So after this, my friend, Beatriz who was going to accompany me on the trip, invited me to stay a few days at her house in Miami. She sent me the airplane ticket because at this time in my life, my economic conditions were not very good. In May 2005, I came to Miami and I felt very happy, but also very strange because this country is very different than Venezuela where I am from. Miami seemed to me very beautiful and my one and a half months at Beatriz’s house were unforgettable, but it was time to return to my country. Before returning, Beatriz insisted that I had to go to visit my brother in Massachusetts. I had not seen him for twelve years. After that, my brother called me and invited me to his house. He sent me some money to buy a ticket to go to Boston to meet him. Beatriz said to me, “You should buy a one way ticket because you do not know when you are going to return, and maybe you will find new opportunities and you may remain there.” I arrived in Boston on July third, and my brother was there to meet me. I felt very happy to see him. But after a while, I was feeling alone and depressed. I was missing my family in Venezuela and I wanted to go back to my country, until the day I met Chris. He was my brother’s friend. As soon as we met, we liked each other and we started dating. We went out to dinner, to the mall, the movies, the theater, and the beach, etc. He treated me like a queen and gave me beautiful flowers. He was the man who I so much had hoped to find. He is a wonderful man! All his attention made me feel like I was dreaming again, and I was afraid of waking up because I could not believe it was true. But it was true. At first I did not understand him very much because I didn’t speak English, but he spoke a little Spanish. This way we were communicating with the language of love. Finally, my life changed 180 degrees and I had to adapt to my new life as a happily married woman. We will soon be celebrating our first wedding anniversary. The changes in our lives are not easy at all, but with love, determination and optimism, everything is possible. 101
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A Journal of Writings Authored by S
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EDITORIAL BOARD Dan Schauben-Fuerst
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TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION..
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The Night Of The Loud Bang E-Man...
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STRUGGLING HOW TO WRITE MAMADOU DIA
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AUTUMN FRIEND GALINDO LOPEZ Galindo
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HOW I GOT MY VISA Rachid Ayoujil RA
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MY FIRST LETTER FROM THE UNITED STA
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I appreciated everything my mother
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MY FIRST DAY COMING TO AMERICA RONG
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FIRST HALLOWEEN IN THE U.S.A. ANH T
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MY TRIP TO THE USA LISA Lisa When I
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III Family III. Family 31
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MY FATHER’S DEATH MYRLANDE ISRAEL
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THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN MY LIF
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monkey bars. You should have seen t
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A STRONG ROSE CARLA EMMANUELE Carla
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A STRONG ROSE CARLA EMMANUELE Carla
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A LIFE WITHOUT CHILDHOOD NERILISE M
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MY DAUGHTER GREGORIA MORROBEL Grego
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MY FIRST BABY MARINEUZA DEJESUS Mar
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Page 51 and 52: MY UNCLE GYALTSEN WANGMO Gyaltsen W
Page 53 and 54: Now Christmas time was a blast of t
Page 55 and 56: THE DAY MY FATHER DIED FRANCISCO RI
Page 57 and 58: MY MOTHER- IN LAW’S GARDEN ARELIS
Page 59: MY BEST FRIEND MIRNA ALVAREZ Mirna
Page 62 and 63: A PRECIOUS BUNDLE GHYZLENE ZAWAK Gh
Page 64 and 65: MY EDUCATION FRANCISCO LANDAVERDE F
Page 66 and 67: THE HAPPY ENDING THUY TRANG T. TRAN
Page 68 and 69: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN HECTOR CAST
Page 70 and 71: OUR MAGNIFICENT HONEYMOON ABDOU Abd
Page 72 and 73: May 23, 2003 I tried to gather frie
Page 74 and 75: MY BEDROOM FRANCISCO PLACIDO Franci
Page 76 and 77: But I didn’t want to think why. I
Page 79 and 80: V My Native Country V. My Native Co
Page 81 and 82: CELEBRATING NEW YEAR’S DAY YEONJU
Page 83 and 84: VIETNAMESE NEW YEAR HAHN NGUYEN Hah
Page 85 and 86: NEW YEAR’S EVE MICHAEL FAUCHER Mi
Page 87 and 88: MEMORIES OF MY TOWN REINA ALMONTE R
Page 89 and 90: IF YOU COULD VISIT ANY PLACE IN THE
Page 91 and 92: MIS QUINCE CARMEN RIVERA Carmen Riv
Page 93 and 94: VI Tales To Tell VI. Tales To Tell
Page 95 and 96: A FUNNY STORY TRANG NGUYEN Trang Ng
Page 97 and 98: A CROSSROADS IN MY LIFE MARISSA Mar
Page 99: MY CHURCH MIRTA TORRES Mirta Torres
Page 103 and 104: MY CHALLENGES Evelyn Rivera EVELYN
Page 105 and 106: GED. Also, if you don’t speak Eng
Page 107 and 108: MY BEDROOM STEPHANIE KELLY Stephani
Page 109 and 110: VII Visions VII. Visions 109
Page 111 and 112: TIME FLIES FLOR DE PAZ Flor De Paz
Page 113 and 114: emember how to do a lot of math & o
Page 115 and 116: are more into title and some are mo
Page 117 and 118: QUICKSAND FRANCISCO TEJADA Francisc
Page 119 and 120: LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS EASY GAIL CALABR
Page 121 and 122: FIND TIME Jose Almeida JOSE ALMEIDA
Page 123 and 124: I’M NOT OKAY JASELYNE RIVERA Jase
Page 125 and 126: WE PLACE TOO MUCH VALUE IN OURSELVE
Page 127 and 128: I love you enough to fight for you,
Page 129 and 130: I BELIEVE: EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO
Page 131 and 132: VIII Folk Tales VIII. Folk Tales 13
Page 133 and 134: farm, to give him grass, to give to
Page 135 and 136: THE GUARANA LEGEND - A BRAZILIAN ST
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