Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recalls when her boyfriend was looking at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and she “wouldn’t talk because I...get really upset when guys find girls really attractive. Because I want that attention.” Are current teenage girls’ warped self-image the endpoint of raunch culture...
...sick of the trees and the squirrels. I need a city. I need a male population. It’s like, ‘Oh my god! Men! They do exist!’” she jokes, as Tristan S. Lang, her new boyfriend, tries to get her attention...
...fact that I am monopolizing his girlfriend’s time. After she shoos him away so that we can finish talking, he gives her some space and rejoins his brothers for a bit. Once our conversation is finished, he again assumes the role of the attentive boyfriend, holding her hand and laughing with...
...nicknamer. Even if the nickname is something you’re not very fond of, you learn a lot when figuring out why someone would give you that name. Nicknames are the ultimate window to how you are perceived by others.Nicknames also define the spheres of your life. My boyfriend goes by “Steve,” “Stephen,” or his last name “Stromberg” depending on who you’re asking. This, of course, leads to a whole new set of difficulties when friends cross the boundaries...
...title story, a retired scientist named Mr. Shi goes to the U.S. to visit his newly divorced adult daughter and discovers, as he hears her speaking to a man in English over the phone, that she has become someone else. (When he finds out his daughter's new boyfriend is from Romania, Mr. Shi tries to stay positive: "At least the man grew up in a communist country.") In their reborn American selves, father and daughter achieve a level of honesty, however painful, that was impossible in China. "If you grew up in a language that you never used...