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3 notes Feb 13,
2010
When I was 15,
my high school boyfriend of three weeks broke up with me. On Valentine’s Day.
Semi-excited that this was the first Valentine’s Day I’d have someone to share with, I rocked up to school with a box. Inside the box, a green apple. Specifically a green apple, not red. The green apple, that part was important. I can’t remember the exact details of its significance now, except that it must have had something to do with an inside joke we shared. Because those are usually the kinds of presents I like to give; cheap handmade shit that triggers the memory of some supposedly intimate sweet moment, in the hopes that the receiver focuses more on the sentiment than my own frugality.
I remember him opening the present and my heart sort of folding in on itself when he put the lid back on the box, the box into his schoolbag, and then walked off to play cricket with his friends. That he didn’t say thanks or reciprocate my gift probably should’ve warned me about what was to come.
Later that night, he broke up with me. On ICQ. Freaking ICQ! Which is as incredibly laughable and embarrassing now as it was a decade ago. Maybe more.
I was there sitting in front my computer, kind of crying, kind of not, thinking to myself, “This is so retarded!”. Even more so when I saw the words “I know I just broke up with you, but we can still fool around, right?” pop up on my screen.
Anyway. I’m not saying I haven’t experienced nice Valentine’s Days since then, because I have, but this, this being my first experience, this is pretty much how I’ll remember Valentine’s Day for the rest of my life.
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ABOUT: stuff about me
Hi. I'm Rhea. 27. Web Designer Type Nerd Person. Sydney. This is my place on the internet where I collect internet things. I enjoy boardgames, 3D Magic Eye Puzzles and, piggybacks. Things I like about me: an ability to laugh at myself, my mega memory and, my above average parallel parking skills. Things I like about other people: an ability to make me laugh, a broad knowledge of random trivia and, a willingness to perform full body massages. I like to collect: business cards, records and, chess victories.
I am terrible at: making friends, accepting criticism, accepting praise, not fidgeting and, declining full body massages. I adore: beerguts, buzzcuts, bowlcuts, interested and interesting, hands in pockets, breakfasts in the afternoon, facial hair, metaphors, speech impediments, nostalgia and literacy. I am undecided about: tickling. I believe in: gut feelings, karma, tangents, lust, softness, mistakes, dinosaurs, magic, comfortable silences and most conspiracy theories. I also have a cat named Radioactive Man.
