The Love We Thought Would Last, Volume One
by Isaac Nuwaele Doetein
First Love, Distance, Forgiveness, and Learning When to Let Go
“Some lessons cannot be inherited. They have to be lived.”
Red Light, Monrovia, 2011. Isaac is twenty-one, repairing electronics at his uncle’s booth, when he looks across the road and truly sees the girl with the small business opposite: a girl he has known since childhood, now nineteen, quiet, reserved, and tougher than she looks. She becomes his first love.
On September 27, 2011, they promise each other forever. What follows is a story neither of them imagined: a daughter born while they are still finding their feet; night school and degrees that refuse to arrive on time; years of separation as Isaac studies far from home, in Harper and then in South Africa; money and love sent across oceans; two families brought together and kola presented, and a wedding that never happens.
Told honestly and without a villain, The Love We Thought Would Last is a memoir of first love, distance, ambition, and parenthood, and of the hardest lesson of all: learning when to let go.
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