When I was in grade school, I got acquainted with two very young lovers. Very young because Mario* was only 17 years old at the time and was a college freshman while his girlfriend Joanna* was barely 16 years old and a high school senior. I was too young to how love really works but I was not surprised when I learned, after several months, that they eloped.
Everybody had his or her own speculation about the two young lovers. Most of the people presumed the couple wasn’t going to last, that they were giving the two a maximum of 6 months before the lovers bitterly separate. Mario worked as a jeepney driver while Joanna stayed to keep house and sell native cakes from time to time. A year passed, then two, then five, it seems the people underestimate the young lovers. Before Joanna turned twenty she was already a mother, a beautiful young mother. Years became a decade, then two..
About a year ago, I saw Mario and Joanna. They were no longer the pretty young couple I used to know. They are the sweet husband and wife who, despite their youth, proved the people wrong. With them were their grown children who were evidence of how true love can survive the test of time..
*not real name
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