Bad For You
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MatureOngoing5m
Last published Fri, Apr 10, 2015
I was always that nice, shy girl that people used for their own benefit because they knew I couldn't stand up for myself. Not to help, I was tiny. 5'0 and as petite as you could be. I was fresh out of high school and looking for a new start in Philadelphia. I left from a small town near Charleston, so I would be new to the whole city life. I went to study photography at a local college smack dab in the middle of the city. I noticed a boy in one of my classes...usually I didn't notice guys. Usually I didn't notice anyone. But for some reason, I wanted to know him. I wanted to know him so bad. Almost enough for me to drop what I was doing and go say hi. But I didn't, of course. I just waited, days, weeks, for him to say something to me. Until one day, he finally came up to me. I never knew how much he would impact my life from that moment on.
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