First Kiss

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This is actually kind of fun to think about.

I think my actual first kiss was probably playing spin-the-bottle at some birthday party in elementary school...Just kids playing a game.

I remember one of my friends in particular who was abolsutely petrified, but determined. He was "dating" a girl I had gone out with. We must have been fifteen. He would walk her home after swearing he would kiss her, then come back dejected because he lost his nerve.

My first "real" kiss was kind of devious. I was probably 14 or 15 and with a bunch of friends riding in the back of a pickup. There was this really cute girl who was a year younger. I started on this thing about her "teaching" me to kiss. She thought I was a real "man of the world" and was very "experienced" and teasing her. (remember, there were several others in the pickup, so she was reluctant) I was pretty nervous, as I recall. Anyway, we finally kissed, and it went pretty well, because I think we kept it up all the way home.

I wonder what ever happened to her.

While I don't remember most of them, I do recall that the first kiss with any new woman was always pretty -- hard to think of the right word -- fun, interesting, exciting, intense. Ah, the thrill of the chase.