My First Crush
It was a glance during the early days of 7th grade humanities class that first sparked those feelings inside me. I looked up from my textbook to meet his pale green eyes and was startled. I looked back down, blushing from embarrassment. I looked back up to find his nose deep in his textbook and […]
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When I Told My Parents I Was Bisexual
I first realized I was romantically interested in girls when I met my then-best-friend in middle school. She was kind and into the same things I was, like drawing, writing, and video games. We hit it off right away, and from then, our friendship grew. But I’d ask myself: Why did my throat constrict each […]
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When I Lose My Virginity Is Up to Me
When I started high school and became close with the popular girls, they pressured me to lose my virginity, since I had already been dating my boyfriend for a year. But at 14, I felt I was too young to have sex. My boyfriend understood that and wanted me to have sex only when I […]
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My First Boyfriend
Names have been changed. Peter and I met in physics class when I was a freshman. We were told to decorate our folders with something related to physics and we both chose the iconic spaceship from the television series Doctor Who. We lived near each other so we started walking home after school together, often […]
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