So I remember, I started going to a summer camp when I was, I think, the summer in between 5th and 6th grade. So, 10, 11, maybe, if my math is correct? And, you know, nobody has game when they’re in fifth grade. Um, certainly not me. I like was totally incapable of talking about how I felt, or, you know, things like that. But I went to the summer camp, and I like distinctly remember that we were all — all the kids were sitting around the dock. They were doing, I think, like a life-saving kind of lifeguard demo and showing us what would happen if a camper went missing. And I remember seeing this kid and being like, “Oh my gosh, like this kid is so handsome, he’s the cutest boy at camp,” and knowing that I was never gonna be the person to like walk up and just talk to him, you know, around at camp unless he maybe ended up on my team or something. They broke all the campers up into teams.
But anyway, I was playing basketball, and he came up, and like, that was how I started talking to him. And it’s so funny to think about now, because, of course, when you’re that young — and then like, he then played every single day, and it did sort of seem like he was maybe interested in me, and because I was a baby, I didn’t find out anything. Like I didn’t get his contact information, I think back then, I didn’t have a cell phone, but it was like AOL Instant Messenger I think was kind of the thing to do. I don’t even know that I knew what school he went to. I maybe knew his last name? And so I remember, I was telling one of my friends about him when I got home. And I think I had like, tried to find him on AOL, I don’t know, with whatever limited information I had and I couldn’t. And they were like, “Oh, I know him,” like, “I can give you his information.” And I was, you know, thrilled, but they were just pulling a very mean trick on me.