![]() ![]() Keeping a steady back-and-forth conversation was tough, but still: “She was drinking with everybody, and she was dancing with everybody,” Lena told me. Lena’s friends were totally charmed by Camilla. ![]() ![]() How would they get through this first car ride without saying anything? But they ended up having a ball. On the way to pick her up at the bus station, Lena was terrified. About three months in, Camilla visited for the first time. Often, something wouldn’t translate well, so they’d have to keep trying to rephrase it. She told Lena she’d been messaging her with the help of a translator app, and taught her to do the same-and then they just kept talking, each replying in the other’s language. Lena, a hotel manager in Lubbock, Texas, spoke only English Camilla, a factory supervisor who lived five hours away in Dallas, spoke only Spanish. But pretty quickly, she realized: They didn’t speak the same language. W hen Lena McPeters first messaged her now-girlfriend on Facebook Dating, she didn’t know much about her she just thought Camilla was cute. ![]()
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