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the girls would get first choice.

As the girls made a mad dash

to ask someone they would prefer

rather than be assigned someone

they didn’t want, I was sure I

would soon be the only boy left

sitting on the bleachers. And very

quickly, that was the case. Soon

every other boy had been chosen,

and I was sitting alone on the boys’

side of the gym. I was looking

down so I wouldn’t have to face

the events unfolding around me.

Then I thought I heard someone

say my name.

I looked up into the eyes of a

beautiful young lady named Dawn,

who went to the same church I did.

She was new to the area and was

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