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A memorable “first” I would like to tell you one of the most exciting and memorable incidents of my life. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately it is always fulfilled with intrigues and adventures, because of my impulsive and curious cousin, her name is, Ana. She gamine and gorgeous, her dark brown hair and bright green eyes make her little pale face look very beautiful. Once, Ana invited me to go to the night club. I am not a big fun of such institutions, but since she is only nineteen, I thought it will be better if I go with her, then she goes by herself; anyways, she convinced me to go with her. Back then I could not even imagine that our evening would end up in such a way… We were dancing and having fun, but then, all of the sudden some drug dealer started bothering us. He strongly suggested to us to sample something from his “goods”. I asked him to stop bothering us, as those things do not interest us. Two minutes later, I was speechless and astonished…, my cousin asked me: ‘why do not we try it? I always wanted to try light drugs, but never had a chance.” Because of this nonsense, and her dark thoughts, I began to scold her. I was screaming at Ana, trying to explain that her intentions were wrong:
You cannot do this, it is very dangerous, and what if you get involved… I will never forgive myself that I didn’t prevent you from this horrible mistake! – I said
Ana replied much rougher and I was even a little offended:
You are always so serious and worried, relax for once in your life and if you do not want to try yourself, allow me!!! – She shouted and run after the drug dealer.
Her thoughts raised every hair on my body. As I stood there for a split moment thinking about the pending danger, I lost sight of Ana`s silhouette and have had little hope of finding my poor cousin and protecting her from a serious blunder. I fled in tears and next to the toilet I came across a man sitting on the floor; he did not look very well maintained, very dirty

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