_¿Y te sientes feliz, Antonio José? –dijo Leticia con la madurez de una señora casada.

_Sí lo soy, pero mi vida sería otra. Yo hice mi vida lejos por nuestro beso.

_¿Nuestro beso? ¡Si jamás nos besamos, chico!

_Justamente: el beso que jamás nos dimos cambió el rumbo de mi vida. Porque así como las cosas suceden para cambiar nuestro destino, también las que no ocurren cambia nuestro rumbo. –y después de aquellas palabras, los dos ancianos rieron con gusto.

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HASTA UNA PRÓXIMA HISTORIA, AMIGOS

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When Antonio José returned from the navy, he came with every intention of declaring his love to Leticia. Traveling through many countries and looking at the immense blue sea night and day, the young sailor made the decision to tell Leticia that they would be sweethearts and when the girl said yes, to give her the kiss he had saved just for her.
So, when Antonio José got off the ship, he went home and after getting ready, without waiting long, he went to the young woman's house. There, surrounded by admirers, he found Leticia as always: beautiful, happy, laughing. They exchanged several words, those that normally two friends say to each other after not having seen each other for so many months. There was no intention in the girl to approach him, nor in Antonio José to expose his feelings.
With the months, Antonio José returned to the ship and did not know if before getting on board, to be sincere with Leticia, but he saw the young woman so full of cloud, so full of sun, so fresh, that he preferred to leave in his chest that love as a package that has never been opened. Then he devoted himself to his profession and his career, sailing all over the world, and as a young man at last: he dedicated himself to live his life.
In each port he found a love and in each one he left many kisses. So much so that after years, he married a foreign girl and had beautiful children just like her. He formed a family and had a house, and sailed several seas. The years, like days that begin and end in the blink of an eye, turned Antonio José from a boy with dreams into a tired adult. Time had taken him to unimaginable places and to do what he always wanted.
In the twilight of his life, for those games that life plays to laugh in your face, Antonio José met Leticia and his old heart beat as it did in his younger years, in the middle of the sea, far from land. He approached her and she had no qualms about hugging him. They talked like two friends who after years, by chance, meet.
And do you feel happy, Antonio José? -said Leticia with the maturity of a married lady.
Yes I am, but my life would be different. I made my life far away for our kiss.
Our kiss? We never kissed!
Precisely: the kiss we never kissed changed the course of my life. Because just as things happen to change our destiny, so do things that don't happen change our course. -And after those words, the two old men laughed with pleasure.