Today's song is "I'm all out of love" by Air Supply. Cheesy, I know. I was 16 and I'd just met the love of my life, or so I thought at the time, and she was a girl! Okay, no, we never went there, nor were we tempted to go there, nor did we even think of going there, or think the nature of the affection we had for each other was out of the ordinary, but short of having a physical relationship, we were as close as two people could possibly be. It's amazing to me now that we could sit in class, gaze into each other's eyes, sing this song to each other OUT LOUD and not be exiled, ridiculed, beat up after school. Yet that's what we did, and no bad thing happened. I remember somebody in the class pointing us out to others: look at these two! You'd think they were a couple or something. Yeah, it was like that, yet it wasn't.
The first time we met was in accounting class. She was very tall, and sat right in front of me. We got in so much trouble together. We wanted to be together, just the two of us, so we started skipping a lot of classes, sitting at Tommy's (a diner we could only get to by bus) and slowly draining her savings account to buy clubhouse sandwiches. We were like siamese twins for years. You couldn't break us up. Then all the trouble we were getting into got the better of us and her mom moved her to a different school. But, wow, that kind of closeness. I wonder if I'll ever find that again in a friend. I doubt it.
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