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The first and only time I was the other woman was after I met seventeen-year-old Victor in high school Spanish class.
He’d lean over my desk and, with deep brown eyes and full lips, whisper fluently into my ear. He had no business in a beginning Spanish class, and I had no business ogling someone else’s boyfriend. But his girlfriend, Britney, had — not 2 hours earlier — approached me and said, with a barely-suppressed smile, that even though everyone was talking about how much weight I’d gained recently (8–10 lbs. if memory serves), she wasn’t joining the gossip.
Britney just wanted me to know.
“Want to hang out this weekend?” I asked Victor.
“Absolutamente,” he purred.
Victor kissed as well as he spoke Spanish, and that — ladies and gents — is how my love of other languages was born.
I never made out with another girl’s man after that stolen weekend, but I have asked every bilingual person since to perform on the spot. Head in hands, Christmas-morning smile on my face, I’d wait…
