The summer I turned 18 I got a job working part time at the local grocery store.

Here, I met a boy. James.

We started dating the summer after my freshman year in college.

I was taking summer courses but still worked part time on the weekends, James worked part time and was not attending college.  I was so drawn to him. Looking back I see it was his brokenness that attracted me. I wanted to fix him.

This boy did a number on me. And might I stress the term BOY. While I was trying to fix him he was breaking me piece by piece and I didn't even see it happening.

After about two years together things seemed great, we were so in love. We were the perfect couple.
As things normally do happen, our inner circle overlapped and pre...

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