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Jude Jones (they/them)'s avatar

This triggered a memory for me! This hardcore Russian gangsta teenager I met on vacation and learned to smoke with at age 12 then SENT ME A FAX with stick figures of us holding hands in love in front of a house. A cross-country fax to ask me out. I was HORRIFIED!! Can also remember the asl days very well. I actually met a bunch of those 18 m wanna meet ups in person in my early teens, but I had a boyfriend the entire time and we would meet up with these guys together. I don't know what they were hoping for, possibly a threesome or I guess maybe they were just lonely? Such a weird time!!!

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Kay Stratton's avatar

Hahahaha! Not the stick figures 🤣 so funny you went with your boyfriend too. They were very strange times

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Vincent Raison's avatar

Enjoyed this. Interesting and funny. Great title too!

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Kay Stratton's avatar

Thank you. I’m glad I changed it 😅

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Jayne Marshall's avatar

Please can this be made into a series, too. Like the things you would be good at with no formal training?! In fact, do I sense a link here?! Thoroughly enjoyed reading this, I stayed til the end and wanted more. I think this could be an entire memoir in itself...!

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Kay Stratton's avatar

Haha. There are some funny stories, but I doubt even I could stretch it to memoir length! Series is a good idea. Glad you enjoyed it, love 😅

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