Thoughts+on+Dating

Thoughts on Boys

** 8 years old: ** Dating? All the older girls  seem to like it. "Hey,  do you want to talk   about boys?" I ask my friends. "What about them?" they ask back. ............  "Umm.....   I don't know.   Let's ask the older girls   what they say   about boys."

** 9 years old: ** EW!!!!!!!!!! GROSS!!!!!!!!! Boys are  ICKY!!!!!!!!!! Don't even  TALK about them!!!!!!

** 11 years old: ** There's nothing  ** that ** wrong   with boys. They're fine  when they're not acting stupid   the way boys do. Wait -  never mind. There's lots wrong with boys.

** 12 years old: ** Gosh. He's  pretty cute...   WHAT?!?!?! NO!!!!!! I can't think that! I can't think  about boys   that way! Boys are icky...  Boys are icky...   Boys are...   icky?

** 13 years old: ** I ache   every time   I think about   him. About // how much //  I wish   we could be together   dreaming   about   his kiss. But there's  another boy   too. It's not fair  to either of them. But I have  two different lives   two different boys   and one   same   longing.