Retrospection

Squealing high school girl

Statistically, one in four high school
girls has had sex before graduation. Most people
assume the number is higher. That means
that education is working, and that's
a good thing. 

with flawless skin and teeth
that put the orthodontist's kids
through college, hasn't done it
yet because she's not like that
at all, but there's a possibility
she will, and not with whom she'll marry.
Still, she'll tell him first, a little
fearful, just in case it makes a
difference (it does, but he'll deny
it till the arguing begins).
The boy she thought would be
The One will be the face she thinks
about some twenty years from now
and wonder where he is, and wonder
if he ever thinks of her, and what
he's doing. But in retrospect, she's glad
he was her first and also thankful
that he was not, after all, her last.



(c) Ellen Gillette, 2015