I met Billy the last summer before college. He was handsome and his irreverence（玩世不恭）was36to me. We liked each other the first instant we met．37，I was a straight Astudent and my parents had high hopes for me to38an Ivy League（常春藤联盟）school.Billy did not 39into the equality. We were in love nevertheless-that 40age love．I still remember we had a plan for prom（舞会）．It was understood that we had 41about where we would dance and drink and party together.
This meant one thing to my parents-panic．And it grew as the 42letters began to roll in. Of the eleven schools I applied to，nine accepted me. And one of them was Brown University-the Ivy League college43in historic Providence，Rhode Island．
There was no 44that I was drawn to Brown，but Billy (who had joined the army）was 45down south and I had offers46for me there，too. I was torn between my love for him and my family 47．
One week48the start of school，my mother had a talk with me．She said I was eigh years old and I had a 49to make---one that went 50beyond the choice of 51to attend university.
In August，I 52and drove north to Providence．It took several months to 53that my life was moving on in a way that was completely different from Billy's，Brown changed my life，opening doors and giving me the 54I now use to think，to learn and to write. Life is always about 55it seems，and the older I get，the more I understand this. Still，there are times when I think of Billy because he taught me about love．
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