We dated for a year, and it was emotionally turbulent because I was emotionally turbulent and he was a sixteen-year-old boy with limited emotional capacity and I wanted to marry him and have a thousand of his babies and he said he loved me and doesn’t that mean, like, forever? Your first love feels like it is destiny. It feels perfectly logical to kiss a boy on your parents’ front steps and think, “I am done looking, I have kissed the last mouth I will ever kiss. I am going to marry this mouth and the boy it’s attached to.” It feels absolutely right to imagine what your kids will look like,
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