Oh and i guess i should have said you should definitely keep this one out of the clown bin! This is definitely real talk and to the unsuspecting, these guys seem very genuine and like they are truely interested in you and only you.
My story is that:
July past, I went to the DR for the first time. I had such a wonderful time. I noticed that not long after I stepped off the plane into the country I was getting lots of looks and attention from men. I didn't think much of it. I got to the resort and it was much the same. So the next morning after i got there, went to get some breakfast and this one guy was making eyes at me and stuff and when I went over to get served, he started trying to talk to me in Spanish of which I spoke pretty close to zero at the time. He asked me if I would meet up with him later on the beach just to talk and I did and we chatted it up (me with my spanish dictionary trying my best to understand him). These meetings went on for a couple of days. He kept asking me for a kiss and I kept telling him no, everyday. It went on so much that I started making fun of him and repeating it back to him, "Una besos, una besos..." Anyway, the day before the last day I was there, he said he was going back to his home town and invited me to go, which I declined. He came back the next day and brought me gifts (an Aventura CD, a necklace and a bracelet and a short note in broken english). I was all impressed because I didn't know he was going to do all this and thought it was so sweet of him to go spend his little bit of money on me. And I was all touched and thought that was really sweet of him to do this and started thinking, I might really like this guy. Of course he was already telling me how much he liked me and this, that and the third. So the last night, he invited me to a little bar off of the resort where there would be a little food and dancing. So I went. He bought me a meal and a drink, which I again thought was very sweet for the same reasons that I said before. We danced and I finally gave him that kiss that he had been asking me for for the past week or so. BUT NO MORE! I am NOT the type of girl that just goes around the world sleeping with men I hardly know. So we exchanged phone numbers and I gave him my address so he could write me a letter. That was almost three months ago and we have been talking every day since. He has put his mother on the phone to speak to me as well. He was doing really well, and he has said it doesn't matter whether we are together in the DR or if he comes to the states to live with me, as long as we're together. So you know, I'm trying not to be too sinical and I'm like alright, maybe this guy is for real, but of course I do have my reservations. So I agreed to go back and visit him in December of this year, and we've continued to talk. However last night, we were talking and he mentioned to me that he had something to tell me and said he didn't want me to get mad. Of course I'm starting to think the absolute worst (that he has some kind of disease or that he has some other shadiness going on). First he said he would tell me in December, but I'm like I am not about to wait 2 months to hear this so I press him. He finally says that he would like me to get him some Jordans and that he would give me the money for them. He said the Jordans in the DR are not that good, etc. I told him Jordans are a lot of money! He immediately starts to apologize and asks me am I mad at him, etc and tells me to forget that he asked me. I told him, I don't forget much and I won't forget that either. I hung up shortly after this exchange sort of baffled. I was confused because basically he said he didn't want money or anything like that and I told him the things that I had heard about Dominican people from reading this site and just conversations in general about people from other countries as well befriending westerners and then asking for money and stuff. And he would say in spanish basically that not all people are the same and so i would say ok, and give him the benefit of the doubt because the only money that I had ever put out where he was concerned was the money it costs me to speak to him on the phone or to send him the pics and letters I sent (that he never received because they were probably stolen in the mail).
So before this note gets any longer, I would just like to say that I don't plan to cut him just yet, but he also told me on Monday that his cousin was killed in a Moto accident. So if that leads him to ask me for money, he will definitely be cut off. The shoe thing is a definite red flag and a bit of a violation, but I won't cut him off just yet. I want to see where he's gonna go with this next. This trip in December should be interesting...
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