Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three female freshmen were late getting to bed, and lay for a time in their darkened dorm room at the U.S. Naval Academy, murmuring of their loves and dreams. Diane Zamora spoke of her boyfriend, David Graham, a handsome, clean-cut freshman at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, whose photo nearby gazed upon the trio. "He'll always be faithful," Zamora said, "because I'll always have something on him." "Oh? What did you do? Kill somebody?" a roommate asked. Several long seconds of silence ensued, followed by more questions and then a confession. As her roommates told...
...louder, brasher, naughtier, Braxton's songs were slower, heavier, laden with emotion. And they had an attitude. Her first hit, Love Shoulda Brought You Home, admonished a man who had been staying out too late; the song Best Friend (which Braxton co-wrote) is a barbed note to a boyfriend who had an affair with his lover's best friend...
...Braxton: "Most of the things that I write or sing about are based on true stories in my life." For example, when she was in college (she attended several schools, including Bowie State College in Bowie, Maryland, but never finished), her then best friend took up with her then boyfriend. Says Braxton, laughing: "After I released the song Best Friend, I heard through acquaintances that this ex-boyfriend wanted publishing rights...
...last year, he was right on the shore, and he already had this beer that was half empty," remembers Mary McCagg, laughing. "Hartmut smiled for 10 minutes after that. It was great." Says Annie Kakela, 25, who is planning a post-Olympic trip to Alaska with her boyfriend, a rower on the men's team: "Not everyone agrees with the mental games he can play to push you to your limits, but I trust him to make me the best that I can be for the Olympics." Michini says simply, "Hartmut is the coach who will take me where...
...have dates and plenty of rules (remember parietals?) protecting the chastity of girls who did. We did not know that strange dislocated freshwo/man year--when boys were allowed in our rooms only on Sunday afternoons (with the door open)--that in a year our roommate's boyfriend would be a permanent guest, that in two years the dorms would...