On Marriage

Today is holiday. Of course not in America, here in Japan, it is the day for the newly coming-of-age.
Back in my twenties, I just time slipped...I was an extremely hard worker, I usually spent 7~8 hours reading books in my study and in the library. I intended to go to school in America, actually I went later but at that time, I was just eager to go...
At that time, I had been in good relationship with a pretty woman, whom I had been associated with for more than five years, and both exchanged an oath to each other to go to the graduate school in America to continue our study, she was a law student at an undergraduate level, while I was an economic major, both're just hoping to keep on our relationship better and we had just believed we could continue our relationship till the end of time, but the reality faced in front of us.
For some reason or other, she decided not to go overseas to keep on studying at the graduate shcool in America, instead she decided to start working as a business consultant in Tokyo's firm. Till that time, I saved about $10,000 for the starter to go overseas and start studying in America, but of course I was unable to pay for her to go overseas and study at the same school together.
I said good bye to her, leaving the word I'd never ask you to see me anymore, at age 25 I left Japan for America.
Since then for 18 years, I never met her. I had heard from her mother she had married at age 27 and had a kid after I came back from America when I was at age 31, two years had already passed when I heard about her marriage.
Soon after I married another woman at age 31. Whoever I married, whoever I loved, I would never forget the days I spent with my first love for more than 5 years, and she will continue to live not only in my memory but at the bottom of my soul, and she will continue to smile at me till the end of time.