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Jeff |
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Jeff was my last boyfriend whom I dated for almost 10 months. The two of us were friends since early freshman year, but it wasn't the end of last summer that we started dating. A funny story is that we actaully met on the first day of classes our freshman year at Notre Dame (1999). During our first class, we were randomly assigned partners to draw to get a start on sketching. Jeff and I were assigned to each other and drew each other but never really talked after that. Even though we were both in architecture at that time, It wasn't until Spring of freshman year when I came out and started going to Outreach that Jeff and I became friends. Our friendship then grew over our sophomore year until he left for a year during that Spring. He then returned to ND last Spring (2002) but I was in Rome unitl the summer. We still talked on IM and emailed and evertually realized we'd both be taking classes at ND over the summer. |
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Jeff and I at the ND marching band dance |
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When I returned from Rome, Jeff helped me through a lot of the problems I was having at the time with my re-adjustment to the US, trying to re-work my relationship with Joe, and many other things; and once again our relationship started to grow. We spent a lot of time together over the summer and a little over halfway through that I think we both started to realize what might be happening That was the height of Gay Summer 2002 however and it wasn't until a week before classes ended that we started officially dating. |
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Durign our relationship we had a lot of ups and downs, but I really don't have very many regrets at all. When we broke up I was really upset, but as I look at the relationship now I realize it was probably the best for the both of us. Things between him and I are still kinda awkward as it's only been a few weeks, but hopefully that will work itself out soon enough because I'd at least like to maintain a friendship with him. He's been one of those people that has been there throughout most of my time at Notre Dame and he has meant a lot to many in many aspects of my life. When we both are back in South Bend next fall hopefully things will go better for us as friends and as people who can be close and talk about almost anything because that's what I really miss anyways. |
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Joe |
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Joe was my first boyfriend. I met him at the end of my sophomore year and things went really fast for us. We started dating with-in a few weeks and then decided to try and survive the long-distance thing over the summer and my junior year when I was abroad in Rome. Things went well over the summer but after I got to Rome they started to fall apart. After me being there only a month, we broke up 2 days after our 6 month aniversary. After that we went through some really awkward and very difficult times. By the second semester, we didn't talk at all and things were bad between us. As I prepared to return to the US, Joe and I startd to talk again a bit and to try to re-establish a friendship. |
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Joe and I before I left for Rome |
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Being just friends turned out to be quite a difficult thing to do, however, and the summer was another difficult time again. As he was prepared to leave for France at the beginning of this year, I saw him again briefly when he was at ND and we finally did talk a bit and without too much awkwardness overall. |
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I haven't talked to him much since he left and I'm ok with how things are now. I am glad that we have finaly moved on and I look forward to the possibilities for us as friends next year when we are both in the US again. I know it seems odd to have a page to an ex-boyfriend like this, but even though things ended it doesn't change the significance he had in my life. He was my first boyfriend and him and I did grow and learn a lot together. We had a rough time in the end but it is becuase of the good times that we did have and because of the importance that he had at one time that I feel he still deserves to have a place on my webpage. |
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