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but I didn’t like doing that. I mainly did it out of peer

pressure.

Some Sundays, I would borrow my parent’s station
wagon or Monty Carlo and drive my friends around Bear
Creek Park to check out the guys because it was the 'thing to
do' back then. One Sunday, I locked eyes with Anthony who

was standing at a corner in the park. He was tall, dark-haired,
green-eyed, clean cut, and well dressed. He smiled, and I
smiled right back. I thought it was “love at first sight.” He
came up to my car window and asked if I would give him a
ride to the store to use the pay phone. I agreed to take him.
He rode in the back seat of the car. Once we got to the store,

he asked me for my phone number. He was a year older than
me. He had just moved to Houston from another state so that
he could live with his mother. His dad had passed away. He
was no longer in high school. He called me that day, and we

soon became a couple.

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