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Finding One's Self

There is always a boy that you can’t wait to see. He is the one you drag yourself out of bed for. The one you dress for even though he doesn’t know that you dressed specifically for him. You can’t even pinpoint the moment you felt that you may actually be in love with him. These are the kinds of moments that are forever seared in your mind. Yet it will not be remembered by him.
Mine took place on a school bus oddly enough. We were coming back from the district basketball game. It was the first time I become conscious, I mean truly understood desire or that I was a woman. It awoke feeling in me that had been dormant my whole life. They had always been there just waiting to rise to the surface and explode throughout my body.
It was December and cold out. We all stood on the sidewalk waiting for the bus to come around and pick us up. I forged cold and he came over and draped his arm...

Posted by: Gelinde Cobbs

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