I don’t know if I would call her my first crush – There were other girls who I had played with chased on the playground when I was a younger pup – But I was in fourth grade the moment that I feel like I truly discovered girls. There was one in particular, who I shall call the beauty queen, as evidently she was in some of those preteen beauty contests.
She wasn’t in my class in school. She was in one of the other teachers classes. But I would see her at school all the time. It was a relatively small elementary school and she grew up in my neighborhood.
Of course, she never knew any of this. I never told her. Never talk to her. And the instances when I would actially see her face-to-face, I tried to look away as quickly as possible before she realized I was making eye contact with her. You know, all the stuff that shy guy does.
but this was it for me. This was definitely the moment I discovered girls. Something and come over me. I couldn’t explain it. I couldn’t articulate it. But I knew it was this overwhelming attraction. I think even on some level, I realize that I was in the process of discovering girls and that my life wasn’t going to be the same after that.
For the record, I can say that I probably only know slightly more about the opposite sex than I knew back in fourth grade. Whatever that’s worth… 
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