All the Boys I've Loved
My crushing days are over.
Or, maybe I just got all my crushing out of my system. I've been in love with the same boy for seven years. Will I ever crush again?
This is a chronology of all the boys I "loved" between 1996 and 2003. I wanted to make an archive before I forgot about this totally imagined and one-sided part of my adolescent romantic life.
These are all recent photographs. They've become the boys they're going to be.
Yours,
Taryn Cowart
Dylan Arthur
1996-1997
In the “Arizona” t-shirt. Childhood neighborhood love, and we took “gifted” classes together in Elementary school.
Jason Klein
1998
Middle School love. His Bar Mitzvah was the Most Fun I Ever Had for a really long time.
John Beall
2000
Punk Love. He disappeared, but I just found out he married a girl from my hometown this summer.
Duncan Daniels
2000-2001
AOL Instant Messenger love, and one time I stabbed him in the neck with a guitar pick.
Patrick Loy
2002
On the left. Very brief love. He got in trouble with drugs and moved to Spain for a while, or so I heard.
