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Not All Love Stories Are Meant To Last Forever
I wrote a piece about the best first date I’ve ever been on. It picked up some traction, along with a lot of perplexed commenters.
Though the love story was one for the books, the relationship had an ending. From what I wrote though, things seemed fine. In fact, they appeared fucking magical.
And they were. But the relationship still needed to end because not all love stories are meant to last forever. I want to discuss why that is. And I want to talk about why so many people thought we should’ve lasted forever.
But first, here is the original story:
I lived in Korea as an English teacher. I didn’t reside in the ultra-modern, international city of Seoul, but in Daegu; the third-largest city in South Korea located at the bottom of the peninsula.
The foreigner community was small; mostly consisting of a few other English teachers and military men that stayed on the United States base.
Several weeks into my stay there, I decided to give dating a shot. But I couldn’t just go out to a bar and meet someone, seeing as there were already so few people to meet. Nor was dating a…
