Word: kim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insisted that she be satisfied because he'd found another tape he'd lost. Anne noted that Kim is (now) willing to compromise with regard to relationships. On our Israel trip, Kim was involved with a genuinely nice, albeit somewhat socially backward guy. Clearly her boyfriend-standard has changed, presumably along with her needs...
...memories of two summers past with the current reality. Anne, who had wanted to experience all the pleasures and beauty of life, has since become seriously involved with drugs. About a year ago, she overdosed on acid at a Phish concert and had her stomach pumped. The situation terrified Kim. Since then, Anne has gravitated toward the druggies; Tim, her current and first serious boyfriend, is a former dealer and a yo! boy. As a pale, blond, blue-eyed, non-Dead Head, Tim is the opposite of everything Anne ever sought in a boyfriend...
...meantime, Kim has moved in with the preps. She does her share of partying, but the most negative force in her life is her boyfriend, Josh, the 6-foot-8-inch giant who towers over tiny Kim. I was prepared to love Josh based on Kim's contagious enthusiasm for him. He was awful. Hostile is an understatement. He delighted in harassing me for being a Harvardian: "You have a lot of losers there, don't you." He insisted that losers are not omnipresent in American colleges. When Josh matriculates in two weeks, Goucher will certainly have...
Josh's indifference to Kim's request that he find a tape that she had lent him and he'd lost also irked...
...have I changed? By coming to Harvard. Kim and Anne, who have known and loved me from my pre-Harvard days are unfazed--even as one heads off to a state school and the other to community college--but they are exceptional. Like all Harvard undergrads, I am no longer part of the huddled masses. Nowhere did I feel that distinction more acutely than at a Joe College drinking party on Saturday night...