I Was a Teenager and I Had a Friend in Sixth Grade

"I befriended him because I didn't have any other friends in that class so I decided to befriend him," says author. "He was three years older than the average sixth grader at the time, but I didn't think that that was weird." The next day when he asked me for gum I told him no and he got mad. He stood in front of me, blocking me from leaving and whispered slowly, his eyes unblinking. Will you go out with me on a date? Immediately I said no", she writes.

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