First girlfriend Stories

I was waiting to catch my flight to a conference when I saw a woman come off the top of the escalator near my gate who I could have sworn I’d seen before. Try as I might I could not take my eyes off her as she crossed the concourse towards me and sat down a couple of rows away. I shook my head to clear it and went back to the report I was reading. A few minutes later I noticed a movement and saw her walking away toward a...

The year was 1978, and I had just turned sixteen. I knew my life was going to change; it had to, as it was the start of my last year at school, and after that, college beckoned. What I did not know was those changes would start that very day, the very first day of the new school year. The town where I grew up has three secondary schools, two well-financed and well-run, and the third one; well, let’s say it was where you e...

In the four years since I met Clare, many things have changed in my life, the most positive being Sarah, my girlfriend. She was my first true girlfriend. I had not forgotten Clare. She was still somewhere in the farther reaches of my mind, nestling there. But Clare was four years ago; she would be now grown up and probably living in Yorkshire—I never understood why, but my thoughts occasionally would flicker to Clare. I w...