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out. If I forget and show up late, there’s holy hell to pay.
    When we both have a weekend off, we fly to New York City to visit Dave and Melissa—sleeping on an air mattress in their small Brooklyn living room.
    After a fun day of taking in the sights and eating ethnic food, Melissa pulls me aside and says, “I can’t believe that out of all the women out there, you’ve chosen the most high maintenance, demanding woman in the world.”
    I just laugh, “Yeah, I know, but isn’t she amazing.”
    She looks at me horrified, “What alien has taken over your brain?”
    After going out for six months, Mariana moves in with me. I’m glad I have a two-bedroom since she moves all my things out of the bigger master bedroom closet, moving me to the spare bedroom closet. She also takes over the master bathroom with all her products. My undergrad roommate, Mike, comes for a visit and can only shake his head as he tells me, “Nate, you’re totally whipped.”
    Living with Mariana is not easy. She has a number of bazaar Brazilian rules. Really, I have no idea if they’re Brazilian rules, but she has a unique way of doing things and it’s just not worth an argument—going against the tide. She also has a propensity for losing her keys, getting lost, and forgetting to do basic things like fill up her car with gas. All of which ends in calls to me to fix the problem. Regardless, Mariana brings such joy into my life, and frankly the sex is so hot I’m a happy man.
     

Chapter 11 – Jacksonville
     
    My third year of sports and arthroscopy rotation in Florida comes in the middle of winter. Before leaving for three months, Mariana and I take a two-week vacation to Brazil. Mariana is not happy about me being in Jacksonville. Trying to make it up to her, I text her first thing every morning, then follow up by calling her on the way to work, and again every night on my way home. Before I left she was having problems with her car, so I let her use my Jeep while I lease a car in Jacksonville. Also, I’m still paying my half for our apartment. None of this seems to please Mariana, She still wants me to pay for her to fly back and forth to Jacksonville every other week. I’m already stretched after our expensive vacation, paying my share on two apartments, and leasing a car. I tell her I can’t do it.
    Even so, I’m enjoying Jacksonville’s warm winter weather. It’s nice not to have to battle the weather, and with this sports and arthroscopy rotation, I think I’ve found my calling. After I finish my residency, maybe Mariana and I can move someplace warmer. After a month of being away from Mariana I bite the bullet and buy her a plane ticket to visit me on the anniversary of our first date. Putting anything on my credit card when I know I don’t have the cash to pay it off kills me, but I figure this is an emergency. Juggling my schedule around so that I work twelve days straight before and after her visit, I look forward to seeing Mariana. We spend most of her three-day visit in bed having great sex.
    As I start my fourth year, with less than two years remaining on my residency, the real issue comes to a head. She’s wondering if we’re going to get married and have kids. This whole line of thought is kind of shocking since none of her siblings are married even though they’re all living with their significant others. All my plans include Mariana, though I don’t feel ready to get engaged. My life just doesn’t have the time for a wedding and I can’t even think about kids, even though I know at some point I’d like to be a dad. For a week we have explosive fights, in which she’s explosive and I just tip toe around hoping I don’t get impaled by any of her shrapnel.
    When Mariana finally calms down enough so that we can have a reasonable conversation I tell her the truth, she’s part of my long-term plan, I just don’t want to get married until I’m done with my residency.
    After meeting with my advisor to discuss