And here I stand, staring into the eyes of the boy who used to be my world. We grew up next door to each other. He was my first crush, my first kiss, and as cliché as it is, we lost our virginity to each other. And out of all the firsts I had with Tyler, the one that is the most salient in my mind is that he was my first broken heart. He crushed me. He had a full paid scholarship to NYU, so I can’t fault him for moving, but what we had wasn’t just some normal love—it was an epic love. And epic loves should stand the test of time, but ours didn’t. We didn’t fight for it, we just let it go
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