Good Old Days Magazine

A Forgettable First Date

The date Nov. 12 is one I will never forget.

It was a Thursday. My best friend and I had decided to double-date the following night. The two of us were equally nervous—not because we were undecided about who we wanted to ask, but because we had discovered there was an opposite sex only a year before, and that just wasn’t enough time to adjust to this new reality. Although girls are generally referred to as the gentle sex, I would have preferred to face an

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