LILI FLORIDA

Yesterday, we celebrated our wedding anniversary. We have been together over 21 years.

Some of you already know about how we met. I have written several times. We met at a Japanese university. He came from America, but he is originally from Cuba (he was born and lived until 20).

My major at a Japanese university was Spanish. One day, he asked me to spend his birthday together. As friends, we went to the Port of Nagoya. To be honest, I was his ideal woman. I was not interested in him. I was very busy and didn’t plan to have a boyfriend.

• Port of Nagoya 名古屋港 – LILI EN FLORIDA

A few months later, we became lovers and lived together. He has not changed since then.  He is still a serious person and hard worker.

When I was in Spain for study, he came and proposed. We got engaged in December of the same year. I was 22 and he was 28. After graduation, I worked in Japan. He changed jobs for a higher salary. A few years later, we got married, and our children were born in Florida.

I don’t know how to describe us: a Cuban husband, a Japanese wife, and American children. Maybe we are a multiracial and international family.

He likes natto (Japanese fermented soybeans). I can’t eat…😅

• Tokyo in 2005

• Ginza 銀座 – LILI EN FLORIDA
• Tokyo – LILI EN FLORIDA

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