This is a completely true story about my Korean girlfriend and me. It is about a wild summer we had in Colorado and about her early experiences with a hung black male.
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We were just young kids, barely starting college. We were both 18 years old. Chee Yun had been my girlfriend since we were sophomores in high school. We met in the summer at the first rehearsal of the local youth orchestra.
When we met, we were both 16. We both played violin and studied with the same teacher. We had heard about each other through our teacher, but had never actually met. Chee Yun was Korean. She was a pure Korean girl from two first-generation Korean parents. They had immigrated when she was only 10 years old. She had two sisters who had been 8 and 12 years old when they came to the United States. I had grown up in Texas from Texan-born parents and was about as native to the area as one could be.
Chee Yun was the concertmaster of the orchestra (first chair violinist) and was
very
talented. I had only taken up study of the instrument more recently and I was struggling with some of the technical aspects of playing the violin. I was always musical, having played the piano and guitar before, but the violin was a relatively new challenge. I was actually amazed (and somewhat impressed) with myself for making the first violin section of the orchestra at auditions.
On the first day of orchestra rehearsal, Chee Yun introduced herself and said, "You must be the famous Matthew Collins I keep hearing about!" I was happy to finally meet her. She was a beautiful girl – a perfect young Korean girl – and I was in love from our first meeting. I am only about 5 foot 7 inches tall, but she was 5 feet even. Meeting her, I felt like the tallest, most masculine man possible. She had a perfect face with perfectly proportioned features. She had a beautiful smile with vague dimples in her cheeks and long, straight, black silky hair. Her lips were thick and luscious when she wasn't smiling. Her body, although small, was also perfectly proportioned with small, perky breasts and a narrow waist that probably measured 23 inches. But the most amazing thing about her was her big black eyes. They seemed to be deeper than any eyes I had ever peered into.
Her English was surprisingly good, with only a hint of an accent. We became close friends over the next few months. I asked her to a dance at my high school and she went with me. This was unusual for her; her parents were so strict that she was only rarely allowed to leave the house without one of her sisters.
Two years later, we both decided to go to a summer music camp in Colorado. I had wanted to go and play in the orchestra, but I wasn't sure if Chee Yun's parents would let her go. The music camp lasted all summer (two and a half months) and required playing in the orchestra almost every day. For this, the student got lessons with a very well known teacher and also got to see other students perform.
I think we were both a little bit shocked when Chee Yun's parents allowed her to go with me. We would be staying with two other students at a condominium in Aspen. All of the condo's there are expensive, but we managed to find one for only $1000/month. Split four ways, this would only be $625 per person for the summer. The other two students sharing a condo with us were friends from youth orchestra. Peter and Sharon were a couple, and it seemed that our small two bedroom, single bath condo would work perfectly.
It did work perfectly until early July when Sharon's mom was diagnosed with pancreatic carcinoma. Both she and Peter decided to go back home, leaving Chee Yun and me alone. We were worried about how we could make the next payment for our condo, so we decided to advertise for a new roommate or two to stay in the extra bedroom. We put up flyers all over the music camp, hoping that some student would want to move in with us. For two weeks, we got only one call - from one student who eventually decided that our rent was too high.
Finally, we heard from someone else. The only problem was that he was not a music camp student. We told him how to get to our condo and he came over to take a look. He turned out to be a 22-year-old black guy named Malcolm who was biking across Colorado for the summer. He just needed a place for about four weeks. He scared both Chee Yun and me at first because he was about 6 foot 3 inches tall and was wearing rapper style clothes, with baggy jeans barely hanging on his hips and visible boxer underwear. He also had several rings on his hands and heavy jewelry around his neck.