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"When I was six years old I
met him in the playground and he came up to me with a daisy, just
the one, and knelt on both knees and asked me to marry him. So I
pushed him over then ran away. Two days later he came over and asked
if he could play cops and robbers with me and from that day on we
played everyday.
At 11 on my first day of Secondary school I was so nervous but at
lunch time he came to find me, and we sat down and ate lunch
together. We did this everyday for an entire year. You were the
first person I told about everything, about my crushes, about my
lessons and about all the people I hated, and when I was 13 and
thought I was the only one who had never been kissed, you offered to
show me how, and by the tree in your back garden we shared our first
kiss.
At 15 we went to our first proper house party, and I got drunk. Even
though I made a fool of myself you were there to help me stand
strong. You didn't judge and you didn't make fun.
Over the next year we began to separate, made different friends. I
got my first serious boyfriend and you went through quite a few
girlfriends. And then it got to May and that meant the prom.
Everything had been arranged, I'd been getting my outfit for months
and then the day before I found out my boyfriend had cheated on me.
The first person I turned to was you. You turned up at my door with
a bouquet of roses and a vintage 1950's car.
I laughed that night
I cried that night
We had three glorious yars together, when everyday I would smile.
Even on the last when your mother stood up, in the church infornt of
your coffin and began reading from your diary:
"I saw you when I was six stood by the bench in a blue checked dress
and daisy shoes and I needed to give an other daisy just because....
Because I loved you from that day on"
His wedding vows written the day after prom, that I will never get
to hear."
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