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fresnelly · 07-13-2005, 05:36 PM

Not to be a wet blanket, but I don't think we should perpetuate the notion of high stakes, life altering "firsts". After growing up watching too many episodes of The Wonder Years, I developed ridiculous expectations and anxieties about that first kiss, date, feel etc...

I spent far too many nights as a mopey teenager lying awake pining and agonizing over the how and who and when. I'm sure I wasn't alone in this.

For the record, my first kiss was a sloppy opened mouth affair. I'm not ashamed of that; I just wish I had the courage to get it over with sooner instead of wasting all that time as the tragic unrequited martyr.

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fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	Not to be a wet blanket, but I don't think we should perpetuate the notion of high stakes, life altering "firsts". After growing up watching too many episodes of The Wonder Years, I developed ridiculous expectations and anxieties about that first kiss, date, feel etc... I spent far too many nights as a mopey teenager lying awake pining and agonizing over the how and who and when. I'm sure I wasn't alone in this. For the record, my first kiss was a sloppy opened mouth affair. I'm not ashamed of that; I just wish I had the courage to get it over with sooner instead of wasting all that time as the tragic unrequited martyr. __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life Last edited by fresnelly; 07-13-2005 at 05:40 PM..