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I was 16 years old in the fall of my sophomore year in high school when I first experienced living with love, or the idea of it. How I went from merely . Everyone had just returned to school from a nice long summer vacation. It was fun to see everyone back toget ....

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.... us. It was all one big circle of girlfriends and boyfriends. If you didn’t find your own boyfriend or girlfriend, usually this certain circle would be the ones responsible for intervening and setting you up with someone. It almost seemed unfair, but that’s just how things were. Most of the time I was, unfortunately, the one being set up. It wasn’t that I couldn’t find anyone, but usually I didn’t want or need a significant other. Apparently, my friends thought differently. They insisted that I date one of their boyfriends’ friends. Two weeks after school started was the much anticipated Homecoming week. Everyone looked forward to th ....