Charmin-Ultra: Don't Squeeze Me

我自從研究所畢業後，除了在台灣，很少交台灣朋友。

有時是怕麻煩，有時是近鄉情卻。

我知道對朋友不能挑三揀四。可是隨著年紀漸長，頭髮漸白，我卻漸漸覺得，為何不可呢。

我並不是那種對於別人講的話可以聽過就算的人，個性也是屬於敏感的那ㄧ類，所以當有人常常抱怨，怪天怪地，或者是跟我嚼舌根時，其實我是很受影響的。

18 years ago I met a girl in the college dormitory. Her name is Sezgi. I loved her because she was just so exotic to me, a small town girl who just finished 6-year of Catholic high school. Her hair wild and her big round eyes were vivid green. She was like a butterfly; with her bag full of notebooks and textbooks, she flashed her smiles and flitted from table to table to chat with friends in the cafeteria. I was very jealous. It was the first time I left home to live in a big city in a foreign country. I was shy. I could not speak English. I looked at her talking to everyone and energetic smile at ease and wished I could be like her.

2004 June