Why I Still Love My First Love
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6 min readAug 15, 2018
My high school boyfriend, Jimmy, did tricks on his bicycle that amazed me. I’d follow him out to the dirt tracks and watch him perform vertical leaps and 360s and jump off homemade ramps. He showed me an ordinary bike could be transformed to reach the sky and defy gravity. That’s still the first thing I think of when I remember him.