1:27:00
would cover your game?
1:27:02
Well, I´d say you could have
whatever you wanted, young lady.
1:27:07
Someone once told me...
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that to write well,
you have to write what you know.
1:27:12
This is what I know--
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I´m 25 years old,
1:27:16
and I have never really
kissed a guy.
1:27:20
A geek to the core, most of
my childhood years were spent...
1:27:23
doing extra homework I requested
from the teacher.
1:27:27
High school was more
of the same.
1:27:29
Then, at 17,
1:27:30
it seemed as if my luck
was aboutto change.
1:27:33
The cutest guy asked me
to the senior prom,
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but it turned out he invited
me as a cruel joke,
1:27:39
and I have never
fully recovered.
1:27:41
Yes, it is embarrassing
to share this with the world,
1:27:45
but it would
be hard to explain...
1:27:47
what I learned
and how I learned it...
1:27:49
without sharing this
humiliating history.
1:27:53
I received an assignment,
my first as a reporter,
1:27:56
to go back to high school
and find out about kids today.
1:28:02
What I ended up finding
was myself...
1:28:04
and that high school
hasn´t changed.
1:28:08
There´s still that one teacher
who marches to her own drummer.
1:28:13
Those girls are still there,
1:28:14
the ones that,
even as you grow up,
1:28:17
will remain
the most beautiful girls...
1:28:19
you have ever seen close up.
1:28:22
The smart kids,
1:28:24
who everyone else knew
as "the brains,"
1:28:26
but I just knew them
as my soul mates,
1:28:29
my teachers,
1:28:31
my friends.
1:28:34
And there´s still
that one guy...
1:28:36
with his mysterious
confidence...
1:28:39
who seems so perfect
in every way.
1:28:42
The guy you get up and go to
school for in the morning.
1:28:45
South Glen would not have been
the same without him.
1:28:48
High school would not have
been the same without him.
1:28:53
I would not have been
the same without him.
1:28:59
I lived a lifetime of regret...