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The Love That Couldn’t Resist a Bad Joke
Or “The Legend of the Nordic Girl”
When I entered college, I heard about a legend: THE NORDIC GIRL! (Actually, they were referring to her by nationality, but I don’t want to give too many clues to preserve the girl).
It was a girl who had just entered college, and in my class. I didn’t see her in the first few days — which were just about fraternization activities and prank calls — but because they talked about her so much — blonde, blue eyes, beautiful — I was already in love when we met for the first time.
As we were in the same class, we lived together a lot. She was as arrogant as I was, so friction was inevitable. Sparks everywhere, I figured out what was going on… And I started investing. In an incredibly tiring history class, we started a huge dialogue written on the back of my handout. At one point, she asked why I didn’t kiss her. I replied that it was because we were inside the classroom. She replied, “That’s not a problem!” and left, asking for permission to go to the bathroom. I gave thirty seconds and followed.
We started dating that day. It was the first month of college. I studied at USP — Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo University — we had the university club to use during the day (we studied at night), and we used it a lot. We would meet there, spend the…
