that was trouble, kids dating and kissing and shacking up and other stuff people lost in the world did who were going to hell. siri, play classic kanye

Yeah we ignored that girl’s note for a reason right? But maybe it wasn’t so much for religion.

Kylene Kristoff was our girl. Or was it Kayleen Kristofferson? Something like that.

She was blond like the movies and she smiled a lot. Superwhite like Elmer’s glue and we were

twice as stuck

She had her crew and we had ours. We’d play near them at recess and pretend to trip over

gopher holes

until we actually tripped and broke our collar bone.

Back in the principal’s office waiting to be taken to the hospital.

wait that was second grade, you’re skipping a whole year!

How could I forget our house in Moreno Valley at the end of the cul-de-sac! Jumping off the roof into the pool, The Legend of Zelda for Christmas,

New Kids on the Block

dance routines with the neighbors.