@drivenbyboredom

It's 1997 and the girl on the left, Shanna, was my first serious "adult" crush (I was 17) and my first kiss. The guy on the right was my best friend Marshall. They worked together scooping ice cream. When I met her she had just gotten out of juvie because a girl in her neighborhood ripped out her eyebrow ring in a fight so she hit the girl in the face with her skateboard, trucks first. I was in love... and then the two of them started dating. It really crushed me and I think it did some pretty serious harm to our relationship. She cheated on him with me and I cheated on my first girlfriend with her. Easily my biggest regret in life and I never cheated on anyone again. Marshall and I stayed friends for a few years after that but we grew apart. On September 11th he and I went down to watch the Pentagon burn. I tried to take photos but it didn't really work. For some reason that was the last time he talked to me for nearly 13 years. In 2104 he wrote me an email. I don't know why that was the moment he decided to forgive me, but I started crying as I responded to his email. I was so happy to have him back in my life. He was living in outside of Pittsburgh and working on a farm. My girlfriend and I were planning a road trip from NYC to the south anyway, so we just had to do a little detour to hit Braddock, PA. It was so amazing to see him again. To this day we are still in touch. I went to Braddock on another road trip and I was supposed to stay with him, not knowing he had cats. I am insanely allergic. I was gonna go get a hotel but he told me that he had the keys to his neighbors house they are fixing up. It had no power, and holes in the ceiling, but they did have an air mattress. It was a mildly terrifying experience and I didn't get a ton of sleep, but very glad I did it cause it's a great memory. That should be the end of the story but just a couple months ago I found out that Shanna is somehow dating another one of my former close friends. They live hours apart from each other but I guess they reconnected via fucking Facebook and are somehow seeing each other. I haven't talked to her in more than 20 years and I haven't talked to him outside of a couple DMs in a decade, but I guess I am happy for them. The end.

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