Vera's Book Corner

The next day, I arrived at Piazza Tre Martiri, twenty-five minutes earlier, and I feared. What if Tom doesn't show up? What if he thinks that I'm not pretty or funny enough? Or what if he met another girl last night, prettier and smarter than me, and he forgot about our plans for today? This was a real agony. I was torturing myself with these questions for twenty minutes, and after twenty minutes of waiting, Tom showed up on the corner. In his ripped jeans, a white T-shirt, a black backpack on his back, and a camera in his hand, he looked like a Greek God. "Hi!" he said. "Hi!" I said with a big smile on my face. "I'm sorry for being late and keeping you waiting," Tom apologized. "No, you're not late. We are both early. It's not even ten o'clock yet," I said, and it was true, it was 9:55. "These are for you," Tom said, and he gave me a bouquet of sunflowers with a blue string. "Thank you! How did y...

When you are eighteen, you feel you have all the time in the world, and your whole life is in front of you. When you are eighteen, you're flying free like a bird in the clear, blue sky, and you think, one day, the entire world will be yours. That's how I'm feeling at the moment. And I'm probably feeling no different from any other eighteen-year-old girl, with a head full of big dreams and plans for the future. I know that sometimes life is not how we imagined it, and sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we had planned. Life is full of surprises, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Unfortunately, sometimes life is too short. It only takes one moment for our whole lives to be changed. In a heartbeat, we can lose someone we love, or we can meet someone new who will turn our life upside down. In a heartbeat, we can fall in love or fall out of love. Actually, falling out of love usually requires more time. A month ago, I was accepted into the College of Performing ...