Crooked Essay

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This book, Crooked I can really relate to. It has so many themes and one, dating for the first time is something I still remember and have experienced. I think the situation in the novel when Clara and Amos meet and start to get to know each other is something I can relate to from my past, dating for the first time can be a special and scary experience but it can be a fun one, and it can teach you lessons which is all that happened to me.<o ></o >9

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My situation I had to deal with happened to me in 2004. In March I had met a guy over the internet that my friend knew. We started talking through the internet then as the weeks passed, we talked on the phone and eventually we met face to face, after knowing each other for a month. Our visit went well and we decided three days later to start dating because we had deep and strong feelings for each other and we believed it was love at first sight when we met. We were together for nearly four months and it was hard because of the distance between us, we lived thirty miles apart. At the end of the summer, my “then” boyfriend broke up with me and called it quits. It was a shock to me and it was something I did not expect to happen, in my heart I believed we would be together forever and that we could make it happen as long as we worked together and we were a couple.<o ></o >11

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For the first week after the relationship ended, I was so heart broken that I would barely eat, or do anything except living practically in my room, staying in bed. I would always reread poems and letters my ex had wrote to me and also look at his pictures I had and also pictures of us taken together. I would also listen to love songs and anything that reminded me of him in some way. I also talked on the phone a lot to my friends and they helped me to feel better. After that week I felt better physically and I didn’t cry for him anymore and I was able to do more things. At the time I still wasn’t over him emotionally but I learned as time went on, it got easier for me. I learned a lot during that time when we were together and when we broke up, I learned not to take love for granted and that you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. I believed then that I did take him for granted because I always said we would be together forever and nothing could ever break us up. I never thought about the possibility of us not being together so it really hit me when the relationship wasn’t there anymore. I learned also to not be so selfish because when my ex would be talking to me on the phone and had to get off I would make comments like “aren’t I more important than money or whatever it is you have to do”? I was kidding around when I said these things but when someone tells you that you will always remember these things. I also remember when it came to saying or doing certain things I was really shy with him and I believe it was because he was my first relationship and the first guy I really loved. The experience was a negative one because of dealing with a broken heart and losing my first love and also losing the friendship that we had but about six months after the breakup, I knew I was over him and that I had moved on. In the future I know I would not treat a guy the way I treated my last boyfriend and now I know that I’ve changed and it’s true what I went through because right now, I’m dating a new guy and we have been together for almost two months. I always think of what it would be like if we weren’t together anymore and I know I’m not selfish to him and I think before something comes out of my mouth that I wish I had never said. And I know when it comes to other things, I can be myself and not really shy like I used to be. I believe the more guys I date, the more better of a person I will become because I will learn new lessons from each relationship like I did with my first love and my first serious dating experience.<o ></o >13

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