ME: Your birthday is close. Aren't you excited?
SHE: No.
ME: Well, I am. Why aren't you?
SHE: I'll be twenty-nine. Tanda ko na.
ME: You should do what I did. I stopped growing at twenty-five. So now, I'm only four. (Smiles) Do you know that men and women are most likely to hunt for sex partners when they reach the age of twenty? It's hormonal.
SHE: Sobra ka naman.
ME: It's true. The standard will be based on good sex instead of looks.
SHE: I don't know. Eh bakit ako?
ME: O, di ba totoo?
SHE: (Ponders, smiles) O nga.
ME: You hit the jackpot with me, though. You got both. (Waits for her to agree)
SHE: (Smiles) Oo naman. (Pauses) So pano yung wala pang twenty?
ME: They're looking for a slambook material relationship. They're eyeing for the ideal ones. First love is innocent. The person's usually attracted to the other person's charm. What's important is the sense of humor, intellect capacity. That's why when you meet your first love again years after, you tend to ask yourself, "Is this the person I fell in love with?" The concept is tainted. It's like you can no longer imagine yourself with that person in the present day. Your standards changed.
SHE: (Nods) Pwede.
ME: But I...I'll never grow old. (Pauses) Don't you think so?
SHE: (Nods) Aha. And I like you that way. Pero dapat ako naman minsan ang baby.
ME: But you are! (Smiles) It's just that I'm younger.
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kids should know that...
Your first love (usually your high school sweetheart), this is the love where you realize that love does exist and during the chaotic time of teenage adolescence find out for yourself what love is.
The second love, shared with a person with similar interests in love and in life, usually the person with whom you raise a family and settle into middle age.
The third and final great love of your life is the person you choose to grow old with, someone to share the memories of life and the mysteries of death. (wikipedia)
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