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[The story connected with this came up a couple of times in conversation recently. Going to link to it, I realized I'd never ported it over to this site. It was originally written December 15, 2005 in another journal of mine.]

These stories I tell are my ( Read more... )

Originally published at How to Crush Without Being Crushed. You can comment here or there.

[The story connected with this came up a couple of times in conversation recently. Going to link to it, I realized I'd never ported it over to this site. It was originally written December 5, 2005 in another journal of mine.]

Long ago (back in the late 80s and ( Read more... )

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So I’ve talked about how to tell someone you have a crush on them and why you’d want to do that. I figure now it’s time I share a couple of stories from my own life. Just a little while ago, I told you about one that didn’t go so well. Now I’d like to share a ( Read more... )

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On 19 June, nearly two dozen of my classmates and I got together for a semi-informal Class of '93 reunion at Roark's Tavern in Monticello.


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High school is a tumultuous time for most people.

Hormones are doing nasty things to our insides and outsides. Social pressures are forcing us to make choices that seem so much bigger than they are. Our very minds consipire to cause us problems trying to ( Read more... )

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You’d think that with three years of a totally obsessive and self-destructive crush behind me, I’d have learned my lesson.

Especially with everything else that I started to learn in high school.

Well, you’d be wrong.

I still had a habit of fixating on people ( Read more... )

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Despite my best efforts, I never was able to fully overcome all those little anxieties that had settled into place over the yeas before high school. They were always at their worst, though, when I was surrounded by the same people who had been around when they ( Read more... )

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With my nearly three year long destructive crush fading behind me, I discovered I had a whole lot more energy to dedicate toward thinking about relationships with other people.

High school, with the plethora of pop culture mythology I had firmly loaded in my ( Read more... )

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As muddled as my mind was for most of high school, some things began to become clear during those years.

First and foremost, the idea that, among my peers, I was actually a worthwhile person began to creep in. That was mostly due to finally shedding the ( Read more... )