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two stories.

i mentioned earlier how no one talks at meal times, so i've been the designated question asker. one day.. i asked everyone to tell their first kiss stories. we went around the room and told them. all were kind of random and lame.

(i had been waiting for the perfect kiss.. so i was 16 or 17 and had never been kissed. this guy who had a crush on me knew i hadn't been kissed because i was waiting for it to be special. we watched the movie Never Been Kissed and on the way out my front door, he took me by the shoulders, pushed me up against the wall before i knew what was happening and more or less licked across my mouth [or that's what it seemed like]. i was infuriated that he had ruined the first kiss i had been waiting and waiting for.)

so we get to the last guy (who's 23), and he says he has no story. he hasn't been kissed yet. i don't know which one of us was redder. so embarrassing. and then people kept joining the table and wanting us all to go around and tell our stories again. i kept insisting the moment was over and we couldn't do it again.

i told maj and jeff that story tonight, and jeff had a story of his own.

he and matt used to go to this sleepaway camp out in the middle of nowhere, texas. i think they went two or three years. jeff was a CIT (counselor in training) one year.. and he said this one counselor from kerrville (small town, conservative), brandon (or something), admitted he had never been kissed. so jeff was sitting around with some counselors and declared he was going to steal brandon's first kiss.

so the next time they all got together, at a meal time or something, jeff said everyone in the room was looking back and forth between jeff and brandon to see what was going to happen.. so jeff just got up and kissed the guy and said 'i just stole your first kiss!'. naturally, brandon was mortified. he didn't want anyone from his town to know his first kiss had been jeff.

apparently they talk every so often on facebook, and jeff always mentions how he was his first kiss.

and those are my stories of the day.