Valentine’s Day
The weeks prior to Valentine’s Day, my junior high held a flower gram fundraiser.
You could purchase flowers for your friends, and the flowers would be delivered during classes on Valentine’s Day. And of course, the coolest kids accumulated the largest bouquets.
Before I reached the wizened old age of 14, I wanted desperately to be popular. I always had friends, but what I wanted was the prestige of the “in” crowd. And if I couldn’t be in it, I at least wanted to look as if I should be.
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