Natalie

At the age of nine my parents separated; my mother moved to the rough city of Newark. Sad and unsure of what was to come of my happy home, I met someone who would always put a smile on my face; Eric. My mother and I attended a Newark church weekly and that is where Eric and I met. He was two years older than me, and I was amazed by him. After three years of a secret crush, we finally became childhood sweethearts; we shared a first kiss and first love. As the years passed, we continued to date into our teenage years. Unfortunately, as we grew older, we also grew apart; Eric went away to college and I moved to Georgia. Two years later, we saw each other at a church convention, but we were not the same young couple in love. We both thought that was the end of our childhood crush. However, curious about him, I decided to give Eric a call almost three years after we saw eachother at the convention.  What do you know, he answered the phone and agreed to pick me up from the airport.  We had dinner and the butterflies fluttered all night in our stomachs. However, we again went our separate ways. The following year I moved to New York and worked in New Jersey.  Eric was a familiar face and we began hanging out as friends. It didn’t take long before we realized the feeling of having a first love came back stronger and more intense than ever. We rekindled our childhood love and committed to making our first love, our one and only love for now and forever.