Saturday, September 13, 2025

That first time April 3, 2025

  

All these years later, I still recall her name, that slightly plump well-endowed redhead who embraced me at age 16.

I still recall the taste of her lips, not from slipstick, but from chewing gum, and how her eyes glinted when I – dressed in the uniform of theater usher – asked her to come upstairs to the balcony with me, where we huddled in the darkest corner and where she let me slip my fingers between the buttons of her blouse for my finger feel, so soft except for the very tips, and let me put my fingers in down below, so moist, so sticky, yet I never wanted to wash it off, her kiss not my first kiss, and yet one that lingers still in memory, against which all later kisses needed to compare, only very few did.


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