Nov
28
A LOVE STORY
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Christopher Galicia has spent years as a bartender and heard many people’s stories. But the people behind the bar, like Chris, have their own stories to tell. His is one that’s hard to forget.
March 2013. Just five months after Chris started working at an upscale dining and cocktails establishment in McAllen. Two young women walked in for a drink at the bar, and one of them changed his life forever.
He remembers them asking to see the menu, with more than 40 cocktails listed. It took a while to choose. Then they decided on two bottles of Stella Artois beer.
“It was kind of ironic and funny, because they went through the whole menu and ended up choosing something so basic,” Chris said.
They made conversation, which Chris said comes with the job — and, he said he considers him-self a nice guy, so conversation comes easy. He never really expected to hear from them again, though he remembers that they definitely made an impression.
A couple of hours later, a friend request on Face-book from one of the girls — Amanda — changed the course of their lives.
Amanda and her friend returned to the bar the next day. Amanda again asked Chris if she could add him as a friend on Facebook. He said she could. That night, they messaged back and forth — for four hours.
And that was it. From then on, Chris and Amanda were a couple. They never spent a single day without each other.
But they would have only a year and a half together, before cancer took her from him.
He recalls the first time Amanda went to his apartment.
“She came over and never left. My apartment was a mess … I can’t believe she stayed,” he said.
Amanda may have stayed, but one day, when Chris left to go to work, she cleaned it.
“She even asked me if it was OK if she washed my clothes because they were all over the floor. It was never weird or awkward that she did that.”
About a week later, when the two of them returned from a night out with friends, Chris knew something was up, that Amanda wanted to tell him something. They were talking in bed and Amanda told Chris she had Stage 4 colon cancer.
“Obviously, it was a big deal,” he said. “But it was never a deterrent.”
He never took into ac-count what others in that circumstance might have done. Instead, did what he felt and knew he wanted. He wanted to be there for her, even just two weeks into this new relationship, because he knew they were special together. They had known each other for two weeks, and Chris decided to stand by Amanda.
A more complete version of this story is available on www.MyValleyStar.com.
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