B Read the article. Complete it with the time expressions.
a few years later,
17 years ago for ten years
a year after
I'll never forget you
Spain !
Adapted from the British press
teve Smith from Devon in the UK met Carmen Ruiz-Perez from
when they were both in their twenties. Carmen
was studying English at a language school in Torbay, where Steve lived.
They fell in love and decided to get married. But ?
the
engagement, Carmen moved to France to work, and the long-distance
relationship first cooled and then ended.
Steve tried to get in touch with Carmen again?
but she had changed her address in Paris. So he sent a letter to her
mother's address in Spain. In the letter he asked her if she was married
and if she ever thought of him or of coming back to England. He gave
her his phone number and asked her to get in touch. But Carmen's
mother didn't send the letter to her daughter and it fell down behind
the fireplace, where it stayed 4​