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I think I wrote this about Laura, and how I thought she was tainted and how she was trying to taint me.  It's amazing how such a short and objectively meaningless relationship meant so much to me.

It meant a lot to me because she rejected me so many times and it felt so good to finally be with her after all the crap I had to go through to date her.  I spent 3 months working in that crappy supermarket for 5.50 an hour (minus substantial union dues) just to get a chance to hit on her.

Looking back, she wasn't anything special, just another girl from a hillbilly town with golden hair and a shitty accent.  If this were the world of The Giver, she'd have been a breeder and discarded as useless after a few years.

But whatever, if not for her I'd probably never have gotten into all that old Incubus music and I definitely wouldn't have been sleep-deprived enough to start writing crappy poems.  Hmm...

(c) 2003 J Baugher