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Because you need someone to feed you grapes.

During my first year in college, I sent a very poetic invitation to a boy I liked asking if he would like to join me for a bath, "Because you need someone to feed you grapes". One of my roommates had a disability, so we had the most accessible freshman dorm suite on campus: the only one with an actual tub. Fittingly, I made myself fully accessible to Seth that night.

He arrived and we got right into the bubbles and each other...we ate grapes and cheese and drank champagne. It was a very corny date with many cliches. Well, I suppose getting naked for your first date and conversation is not very cliche, but still...as college dating in the early 80's was concerned...it was filled with romance.

We both had a lovely evening, but neither of us had any interest in continuing the relationship after that. I didn't even bother to seek him out after discovering that he had given me crabs.
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