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Kristen Bernardi wonders what to do when you find that your new city is haunted by an ex.The sweltering summers in Madrid make everyone frisky.
I first moved to Madrid in the month of July, and my first few days here were a whirlwind of botellones, meeting new people and trying to find my way around my new city.
Somewhere in the heat and the excitement of unconquered territory, I met a guy. A guy with an accent. A worldly guy who knew his way around town. Hot.
However, after a steamy summer, we broke up in the autumn. The romance didn’t last past the 40-degree days. And that’s when I realised: four months after moving to Spain, I… knew… nothing.
I had stepped off the plane not knowing a soul, and I was stunned to realise that the only people I knew now were through him.
This fellow-expat boyfriend had lived in the city for several years before I arrived on the scene, so he showed me everything. He quite literally introduced me to Madrid. He knew which bars to avoid, which Metro line to take; his Spanish was better than mine. Our weekends were sorted all summer long, since he’d been accumulating a group of buddies for years.
Back in the States, I would never have been the kind of gal who makes her boyfriend her whole world. I had my own friends and family activities and all the other things that fill the hours. But here, I was rudderless. He led, I followed, and furthermore, I had liked it that way!
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