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From time to time I think back to my first proper girlfriend, her name was Barbara and she lived up Turton way iirc.
I was about 17 at the time and she a year or so younger.
Unfortunately I've always been more of a practical man than a romantic sort of one and with me living in Halliwell and having no car, the only time we could meet was at weekends and even then she had to catch the bus home that left Moor Lane at about 9.30pm to get home for the time her parents had set her.
I was very keen on the girl and I think she was in love with me - well you think it's love at 16 I guess as you haven't had other life's experiences to judge it against - but to me it was simply never going to work because of the distance involved between us.
I'm not a callus man but the end came when we had to leave the Odeon half way through a film so she could catch the bus home for ten or whatever time it was - remember this is long before mobile phones (I had to use a phone box back then) and the internet - so I took her to her bus and when it came I said that I thought it best that we should finish.
She broke down in tears and the last I saw of her was sobbing as the bus pulled out of the station.
The last that is until about 20 years later when my dad was in Townleys recovering from a stroke and was having like walking lessons to get him moving again. I went to visit him and immediately saw that the specialist treating him was non other than my childhood sweetheart.
I said nothing and neither did she - she may not even have recognised me - but my heart once again melted.
I don't know if I hadn't had been such a pratt back then when I was just a youth if things may had been very, very different for us both - who knows - but I was and our lives took separate directions from each other for better or for worse.
I hope she did find happiness, I don't like hurting people and I know I hurt her back then and I've always felt sorry about it.
They say you do learn from your mistakes and I did from that one, ever since if I had a relationship that I believed had run its course (even if the woman didn't!) I always managed to find some way to let them down softly.
Happy days really but that certainly was not one of my proudest moments.
I was about 17 at the time and she a year or so younger.
Unfortunately I've always been more of a practical man than a romantic sort of one and with me living in Halliwell and having no car, the only time we could meet was at weekends and even then she had to catch the bus home that left Moor Lane at about 9.30pm to get home for the time her parents had set her.
I was very keen on the girl and I think she was in love with me - well you think it's love at 16 I guess as you haven't had other life's experiences to judge it against - but to me it was simply never going to work because of the distance involved between us.
I'm not a callus man but the end came when we had to leave the Odeon half way through a film so she could catch the bus home for ten or whatever time it was - remember this is long before mobile phones (I had to use a phone box back then) and the internet - so I took her to her bus and when it came I said that I thought it best that we should finish.
She broke down in tears and the last I saw of her was sobbing as the bus pulled out of the station.
The last that is until about 20 years later when my dad was in Townleys recovering from a stroke and was having like walking lessons to get him moving again. I went to visit him and immediately saw that the specialist treating him was non other than my childhood sweetheart.
I said nothing and neither did she - she may not even have recognised me - but my heart once again melted.
I don't know if I hadn't had been such a pratt back then when I was just a youth if things may had been very, very different for us both - who knows - but I was and our lives took separate directions from each other for better or for worse.
I hope she did find happiness, I don't like hurting people and I know I hurt her back then and I've always felt sorry about it.
They say you do learn from your mistakes and I did from that one, ever since if I had a relationship that I believed had run its course (even if the woman didn't!) I always managed to find some way to let them down softly.
Happy days really but that certainly was not one of my proudest moments.
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