First Love

Each month, we send two former lovers on a date to see what happens

AS TOLD TO KATE PASOLA.

“I was devastated to have to leave” María, 29, is a photographer from London ‘Back in 2007, when I was a poor student who couldn’t afford to buy records, I used to hang out in a music shop in London’s Soho and listen to them for free. One day, just after my 18th birthday, a guy approached me saying he’d seen me around and wondered why I never bought any music. His voice and brooding looks had me smitten. We fell into conversation, and he ended up buying me a record as a belated birthday gift. We left together, grabbed a bottle of wine and walked all the way to the River Thames, where we drank it, before heading to a party. Hours later, under a Chinese lantern in a garden nearby,…

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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018

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