The next year we each lost our virginity to other people. I wish we would have gone through with it that one rainy night, but at the time we couldn’t have known how important it would have been.

The summer before senior year we finally succumbed to the inevitable. We were

It was 1982, and we were in the 8th grade, which was the first year of high school because there was no middle school in the area where I lived at that time.

They say girls mature faster than boys. That is never more evident than in an 8th grade classroom.

will not say that he was the object of my first affections, for that would be a lie. I have been feeling passionate about people since I was very, very young. Younger probably than most people. But I deny giving those feelings the title of love.This may seem unfair to