Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...boat, a battery exploded in his face. When he pulled out a piece of plastic, his right eye came with it. Now he wears goggles, which protect his glass eye and the other one, that one he cannot afford to lose. Jacqui stepped onto the Sea Hawk with her boyfriend three years back, and the 39-year-old became addicted to the solitary ocean and what she calls its “serenity.” She ditched the boyfriend and kept shrimping. These were exactly the people I wanted to spend the night with. I first met Chris...
...track record, quite possibly even longer. I vow to uphold this pledge faithfully, unless a situation unexpectedly arises that imperils its execution, such as my friend Janet's birthday party this weekend, which I happen to know Molly Heinecker will attend, and that she just got dumped by her boyfriend and Janet tells me she's looking to rebound and make him jealous, plus the Evite promises an abundance of inhibition-releasing Jell-O shots, so, you know, I'm just saying...
...easier to break up with a boyfriend by text message than face him in person; that way, you don't have to suffer through his tears. Just like it's easier to complain about restaurant service online than to tell the waiter there's a fly in the soup. And we enjoy confessing secrets to anonymous web sites visited by total strangers, but we can't admit that same secret to the one person we betrayed...
...learned while home that one of our sleepover compatriots, who had played, shopped, and shared her dreams with us when we were younger, was pregnant. She had moved with her boyfriend to a different state after our high school graduation, and the last time I had really spoken to her was early last fall, one night after I had moved into Mower...
Phone in hand, I stumbled down to the basement of my dorm to talk to her. In the course of her telling me how exciting it was to move into an apartment with her boyfriend, to buy silverware and pots and pans with him, to build a life with another person, I realized much how further along she was than me in developing the relationships and making the decisions that separate adolescence from adulthood. I told her how much I liked my room, my roommates, and my classes, but in comparison to her, I felt silly, immature...