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Love at First Sight
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2015
Love at First Sight
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
At the exact moment that Matt walked into the bar in New York, I looked up, saw him and caught my
breath. I didn’t know him. I’d never met him. But that was it. Love at first sight.
I was 26 and working on a glossy magazine in London. I’d gone out to Manhattan because three male
friends from university had all, coincidentally, got jobs there. At the time I was in the middle of an on-off
relationship that had been drifting along for years. I wasn’t sure where it was going – or even if it was going
anywhere at all.
One evening we all got together in a bar in the East Village. I glanced up as the door opened, and there he
was. He was wearing a black coat with the collar turned up. But I could see his face. And my heart missed a
beat.
That was over 20 years ago. We’ve been together ever since. We’ve had three children. We have a
mortgage, two cats and an ancient green Volvo. There’s been only one argument that I can remember,
although I’ve no idea what it was about. I stomped off into the night and found myself in the next street,
quivering with rage, wearing one black court shoe and a gardening boot.
Cynics say that love at first sight is the stuff of fiction, dreamt up to explain the madness of sexual
desire. But you never hear stories about glimpsing someone across a crowded room, feeling a surge of joy.
That lightning bolt is significant. It’s about recognising your soul mate.
I don’t remember much of my first conversation with Matt. But I do remember his eyes and his smile and
the way he listened to what I said. I managed to twist someone’s arm and get Matt invited along on a
weekend upstate to see another old friend, Nina. I remember white clapperboard houses and visiting some
kind of Amish community. I vaguely remember an art gallery with paintings of voluptuous female nudes.
But really all I remember is Matt. We kept lagging behind everyone else to talk.
Matt says he felt exactly the same way – that he knew, the moment he met me, that we’d be together
forever. But I’m not sure I believe him. He loves me, so he tells me what I want to hear. What is true,
though, is that the pull between us was so strong that we moved in together after spending only a
fortnight in each other’s company.
He left his job and came back to Britain, and there we were in glorious, unromantic south-east London. I
look at it now and I think, “Oh, I really hope none of my children ever does anything quite so insane.” But
at the time it seemed perfectly logical. There were times when we scrambled to keep up with the pace of
what was happening. I remember panicking early on when someone official asked for my partner’s date of
birth, and I realised I didn’t know.
But something about Matt felt right. And it still does.
I don’t think we’re that similar as personalities. He makes me laugh all the time with a kind of pessimism
inherited from his late father.
I never really know what he’s going to think or say about anything, which makes life constantly surprising.
But maybe that’s a good thing. I don’t think I’d want every day to be a cup of tea and a chocolate digestive.
When I met my husband, it was love at first sight. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
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2015
TAREA 2 - 14 puntos: Read the text on page 5 and decide which castle(s) or palace(s)
match(es) each statement. For each statement, the number of correct answers may be 0, 1 or more.
ALTOGETHER, THE NUMBER OF CORRECT ANSWERS CANNOT BE MORE THAN 14. OTHERWISE THE TASK
WILL NOT BE VALID. The first one (0) is an example, and is not included in your total of 14. Tick (✔) the
14 correct answers as in the example.
A. The Potala Palace, Tibet
B. Mont Saint-Michel, France
C. Predjamski Castle, Slovenia
D. Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
E. Matsumoto Castle, Japan
F. Hunyad Castle, Romania
G. Palacio da Pena, Portugal
H. Prague Castle, Czech Republic
A B C D E F G H
Fascinating Castles and Palaces
5. It is on an island. 5.
6. It mixes typical elements of different art
6.
movements.
7. It stands on a flat area of land. 7.
8. Its architectural elements are typical of a
8.
different style and period.
9. It served as a jailhouse. 9.
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2015
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it was the place where the Czech kings, Holy Roman Emperors and presidents of Czechoslovakia and the
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