I am writing about my life, and its ups and downs

I remember all the things I used to write as a teenager. I would pour out my heart in fiction, and save it in a drawer. It was mostly romantic fiction, and I never named my characters. I wanted my readers to put themselves in the position of my characters. I also started writing a book about all the people I had met in my life. I was so motivated because I had just met a gentleman who inspired me; it was on a clipper ship, and he was from some other country, and could not speak English very well. We had been looking at Lake Michigan from the side of this clipper ship, trying to make sense to each other. I never saw him again, but his name was Asisa.