"Ricky tells the story of relationships he had with his first girlfriend, Daisy."
BEFOREUntil high school, I thought our family was an ordinary conventional family. It wasn't.Nudity was a tradition in our family. I lived in a house where being naked was the dress code. My parents had friends with the same conviction. I only...
"This was not expected."
The last time I had seen Rose was at our ten-year high school class reunion. In high school, Rose had been the one girl I wanted to date, but she barely even knew I existed. At the ten-year reunion, I...
"Jace just couldn't let another have her"
Troy and I had been seeing each other for about three months, with our relationship being purely physical. We did end up having an official date after that enjoyable Sunday morning, but I reaffirmed my earlier conclusion, that aside from...
"Desires from high school come to life."
I went to a fairly large, high school and was just one of those people that was just in the crowd. I did not play sports and was not in the popular crowd. I had girlfriends throughout school but was...
"Re-uniting with my first crush"
This was the year of my fiftieth high school reunion. After receiving the invitation and giving it considerable thought, I decided to go. I had a lot of friends in high school; neighbors, team members, drama clubbers, etc., so, ordinarily,...
Ending a loving relationship, particularly for the second time, is more complicated than disconnecting a phone call. Over the previous thirty-plus years, memories of Gaynor had frequently popped into my mind. Something or somewhere - a smell, a sight, a...
The place Gaynor selected for our late lunch was only a few minutes drive away, a quaint country inn with thatched-roof, low black beams, leaded windows and highly-polished hardwood flooring. Prints of hunting scenes, highlighting red coats and dappled dogs,...
Traffic was light that Friday evening and I made good time. It was 7:01 when I parked the car in the garage and switched off the engine. I removed the phone from my pocket, preparing to text Gaynor, when it...
Thursday night I hardly slept. I was like a child on Christmas Eve, excited and desperate for morning to arrive so that I could open my gifts. But I wasn’t a child. I was less than a month from my...
