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said my Texas born and raised boyfriend.
It was great, because it was so unexpected.
Perhaps when an author with 20 short stories published, two anthologies and 9 novels told me that she thought I was going to make it in the world of publishing.
I ran into a woman I'd gone to high school with--I was with my son who was about 13 at the time and she told him that I was one of the nicest people she knew--why? During high school, I was the person who always smiled at people and said, hello; would engage the "losers" in conversation and treat them like people, like they mattered.
At my 25th reunion, one of the guys said about the same thing--only he said that he had a crush on me all through high school, but was too shy to ask me out--and didn't want his friends(he was a jock) to laugh at him. He said that was prolly one of the biggest regrets he had, that he didn't feel like he could stand up to the ridicule of his friends, but watched me just make friends with people and not really care about societal(high school) rules.