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RAMBLINGS OF A DEFIANT WOMAN
My Sister says Comparisons are Odious
Truer words were never spoken
I had a crush on a guy in my high school band. We hung out for a few months but then he fell hard for Danette. She was adorable and very flexible. She used to stretch at lunch.
I remember once she sat down on the lawn and leaned forward with her legs wide apart and touched her head to the ground between her legs, and I thought, does she have a missing bone or something? Are people even supposed to be able to do that?
Danette also played the flute, so in addition to the hour of orchestra they shared every day, she and my crush spent a lot of time together in after school band practice. Anyway, he liked her, and who could blame him?
Still, I kept asking myself if it would have been different if I’d been in the band. Would additional hours of forced togetherness every week have given me the edge? Should I ask him to be my physics partner again next semester and try to win him back?
No. He liked her more. That was all there was to it. Okay, fine. Let’s move on.
But wait — What was it was about her that made him like her more? What did she have that I didn’t have?
