Jennifer Horgan: My children will never see America as I did — the romance is over
Newport in Newport County, Rhode Island. Twenty-four years since my American romance, my country’s relationship with America couldn’t feel more different.
I met Jimmy in the summer of 2001 in a bar in Newport, Rhode Island. I was on my J1, four months stretching ahead of me — a glorious sense of summer.
It was a love affair wrapped inside a love affair. The cultural romance between Ireland and America back then created a separate, magnetic attraction. He loved Irish girls, just as I loved American boys. style, the force was with us.
