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Scene: Kitchen Table
Timing: Valentine’s Day
Players: Me and my then 6-year-old son.
He is gathering up his Valentine’s Day cards to take to everyone at school and he asks me “Daddy, why does the little boy shoot people with arrows for Valentine’s Day?”
So I explain the story of how Cupid shoots people and they fall in love with the people they are close to at the time.
Silence.
Then: “oh, I guess that happened to me in Kindergarten when I was sitting next to Sinead.”
I don’t know if I’ve ever had any crushes either.
I are freak too?
No, I was just teasing my husband because I was afraid I was the freak.
I never did this, but both my daughters are.
Oldest has been through 4 potential husbands, but for the past year has been settled on my college roomie’s middle son, who loves her back. Several months ago we were visiting them and she said to him, “Now remember, we’re in love!”
Younger daughter, age 4, wants to marry her little friend Nathan “because he looks nice.” He is, indeed, an adorable little boy, though I feel sorry for her, knowing that his children will be just as whirlwindy and mischevious as he is.
Ah, gotcha. Then yeah, you’re a freak.
We still love you.
Hey, what are you doing outside your cage?!?!
Yeah. Kindergarten. Adele and I played together for a few years. We were tight. Then moved schools, and I didnt’ see her again for years. My next crush was in 4th grade. Oh man, WHAT a crush. Ilyse, if you’re a Doper, sorry I was such a typically clumsy terrified 9 year old. I’m all better now ! 
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In 1st and 2nd grade, I had big crushes on Lori and Amy. Unfortunately, it was not mutual and I was always getting in trouble for chasing them around the playground and trying to kiss them.
2nd grade. I loved that boy so much. I wish we had been allowed to get married at that age. I think we could have made it work.
I think every subsequent time I’ve been in love I felt slightly less strongly about it than the time before. My second grade crush, that was the man for me.
There was a girl in 1st grade that was in a different class that I had a thing for, but I was very VERY adamant that nobody knew I had this crush. So I basically treated her like I never knew her. Thats 1st grade mentality for you.
Wherever you are, boy whose name I can’t remember, I’m sorry I burst into tears when you kissed me on the cheek. I was confused and you were a boy. Thank you for appreciating my bringing the violin in for show and tell.
I know I had a crush in first grade. I know he either broke up with me (we were dating?) or told me he didn’t like me when the class was supposed to be singing The Candyman.
Always hated that song.
Hey, it’s okay. I still do that sometimes, and I’m a grown up! I get confused, people are boys…it never goes away.
I don’t remember having crushes in elementary school. OK, there was one little boy in preschool with longish brown hair whose name I forget. I’ve liked guys with long hair ever since.
My daughter (age 6) seems to have skipped the “boys are gross” stage. In kindergarten she liked a boy who was one of two people in her class to show up to her 5th birthday party. There was another boy in her class who teased her all through kindergarten and the first few weeks of first grade. She finally confronted him and they ended up as friends. Now she has a crush on him.
Oh boy.
Count me in as one who has always liked girls. In grade one it was Holly. Grade 2, Melissa. I took a few years off to discover baseball, frogs, snakes, and spiders and then it was Lisa, and Sherry, and Mary Ann and Donna. In high school it was Dorothy.
My son is 8 and I see him following in his father’s footsteps since he is simply adorned by little Emma at his school, and isn’t afraid to tell us so.
First girlfriend in kindergarten - Carmen, more her idea really. Kind of a bossy little thing. Then, in a very solemn speech at the end of the year she dumped me for Michael Jackson ( the pop star :p, ten years older than me ). I was moving anyway.
First real crush on my side - first grade, Mary Ann. sigh Sweet, cute Mary Ann. She wouldn’t come to my birthday party ( I’m thinking restrictive parents ), but did get me a nice present ( I’m thinking compensating parents ). She remained my elusive goal into second grade, until I was forced to move away yet again.
Had a huge crush on a girl in grade 3 and 4 in elementary school. She then left to another school. Over the 20 years or so that have passed, I had thought about her from time to time. About a month ago we were reunited. It has been going well so far.
Nancy Furman, if you are listening, I loved you when we were both in first grade, so call me. Or was it kindergarden?
Or was it Ferman?
Are you kidding? I pretty much remember what grade I was in at any given point by remembering my crush at the time.
Kindergarten was Sam, a rambunctious little red-headed boy. I think we held hands once, but mostly we just chased each other at recess.
1st grade, I was absolutely smitten with denim-jacket-wearing Daniel. He and his friends would play “dirtbikes” at recess, which consisted of running around the playground in packs going “VROOM VROOM”, and of course he was the leader. I screwed up the nerve to ask him if I could play too one time, he obliged, and I afterward realized he had no interest in anything BUT dirtbikes, at which point I was a little embarassed at my pathetic attempt.
2nd grade was Colby. Messy blond hair and a mischeivous grin. I will never forget how he waved at me one time by curling his pinky finger… I think I literally swooned. I pined for him in 3rd grade, too, after we’d been assigned different teachers, but I think he changed schools.
4th grade was Matthew… I thought I’d never get over him. Skinny, blond hair, skater’s cut, perpetually wearing the brand-new Michael Jordan high tops. He said he’d be my boyfriend if I gave him a picture I was drawing, but I told him he could have it and he didn’t have to be my boyfriend, hoping he’d say he wanted to anyway, but he didn’t. He flirted with me for a little while after that, but he flustered me so much that I couldn’t even respond, so he finally starting dating my best friend. I was crushed.
5th and 6th grade, this short little Filipino boy named Jacob with huge glasses and an underbite asked me to “go out with him” after he was rejected by my best friend. I said “sure, whatever” and we were off-and-on until junior high. He was really quite a nerd (and a nerdy-girl-magnet as well), but I just couldn’t get over him for the longest time. Sooooooooooo many diary entries about that one.
So, that was a little self-indulgent… I like this thread; it’s cute.
Ah, first grade.
My first love was Bob. Bob the Bigamist. Bob who said he really liked me but had to “go with” Beth, too, because he was going to marry Beth, he just wanted to date me.
Well, I guess that’s not bigamy. Bob the Two-Timer just doesn’t have the ring to it, though.
This… is beautiful. Wow.