Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meet Pop at ABP, and I started to drip tears and turn red and crouch in the iron chair, complaining about my life, all the while knowing that across from me, my father was just trying to stay alive. I cried and complained and told him this boy, my boyfriend, was mad at me and I couldn't do chem and wasn't having fun and couldn't get good grades and couldn't get along with Mom--everything, except how much I wanted him to stay alive. What is wrong with me, I kept thinking, that...
...meet Pop at ABP, and I started to drip tears and turn red and crouch in the iron chair, complaining about my life, all the while knowing that across from me, my father was just trying to stay alive. I cried and complained and told him this boy, my boyfriend, was mad at me and I couldn't do chem and wasn't having fun and couldn't get good grades and couldn't get along with Mom--everything, except how much I wanted him to stay alive. What is wrong with me, I kept thinking, that...
Defenders of Bridget Jones brook no complaints about its portrayal of the single condition because the book is, after all, a comedy. But there was something unsettling--something that drained the satire--in Bridget's pursuit of a boyfriend. It was as though she wanted one not because falling in love is a signature experience of humanity but because she saw a man as a necessary accoutrement of urbane life, like a Prada bag. Her Stateside compatriots aren't nearly as absurd--or maybe they just have better shrinks...
...boyfriend. Gulp. Just. Gulp. Broke up with me. Gulp. And none of my roommates wanttolivewithmeandImsosad. I really hate this school...
...that point that I realized why I don't stop when I see people crying in the yard, why I avoid people who are stomping to class and why I don't stick around when a friend's computer breaks or they lose a reserve book or their boyfriend dumps them for a Boston University woman...