When I was about four years old, I appeared on the Channel 3 Kids' Clubhouse — some local morning show for the little ones. The host asked each child what his or her favorite holiday was. On the tape, there's footage of me nervously chewing my lip until the host says, "And Anne? What's your favorite holiday?"
Valentine's Day, I said to her, because you get to tell people you love 'em. And it's true: I was obsessed with Valentine's Day, and I'd spend weeks making valentines, or writing personalized notes to my classmates on the backs of store-bought Chipmunks valentines. The sting of this, of course, is that my romantic moves did not pay off. When other children began stealing pecks on the cheeks, I was leaving band-fundraiser chocolates on the front porch of my poor junior-high crush, Justin Woiwode. I was a complete weirdo.
I was looking through the old posts here, and I found this one, written a few days before v-day 1998. It's funny to look at it 11 years later. It's also funny to look at this old shot of me and Jaime in our salad days. It's a picture of friendship, but it always makes me happy — especially because we remain friends more than a decade after it was taken.
Valentine's Day, I said to her, because you get to tell people you love 'em. And it's true: I was obsessed with Valentine's Day, and I'd spend weeks making valentines, or writing personalized notes to my classmates on the backs of store-bought Chipmunks valentines. The sting of this, of course, is that my romantic moves did not pay off. When other children began stealing pecks on the cheeks, I was leaving band-fundraiser chocolates on the front porch of my poor junior-high crush, Justin Woiwode. I was a complete weirdo.
I was looking through the old posts here, and I found this one, written a few days before v-day 1998. It's funny to look at it 11 years later. It's also funny to look at this old shot of me and Jaime in our salad days. It's a picture of friendship, but it always makes me happy — especially because we remain friends more than a decade after it was taken.
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