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Weekly Contest #342
FIRST KISS: I found boys or they found me. I never had the birds and the bees sex conversation with my mother, so I didn’t know much about anything. I went to a Catholic school so even talking to boys was a big deal. It was the 1960’s and times were different. Easier, or so it seemed. We only had one car and dad took it to work at his corner bar every day so I walked to and from school with my six siblings. We crossed busy streets and took quick glances into dark bars that smelled like cigarettes, stale cherries and alcohol. We passed groc...
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