First Love
Cosmopolitan UK|April 2019

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

Kate Pasola
First Love

“He told me I’d broken him”

Jestina, 22, a business owner from Birmingham

It was an ordinary day at church, back in 2012, when this tall, beautiful boy walked through the door. I was 16, and remember thinking, “Look at my future husband! Thank you, Lord – I’ll take him.” He complimented my

nails, saying I reminded him of Nicki Minaj. For four months, we were just friends, until a church group trip to the countryside – we bonded because we’d both brought impractical, glamorous clothes. I had a diva meltdown because of it, and the whole group called me silly, but he wiped the tears from my face. That’s when I noticed a shift. We had our first kiss during a game of Truth Or Dare a couple of weeks later – I still remember the butterflies.

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