finding a balance

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I fell in love for the first time in the sixth grade. He was an "older man." A whopping fourteen. Two years later, he noticed me. The awkward middle schooler was growing up. We wrote letters over a summer while he was in Arkansas---real, hand-written letters. We didn't have facebook. We didn't talk on the phone.

I used to go on walks.

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'Not all of us are cut out to be B.B. King. Not all of us would even want to be B.B. King. But all of us have something we’re good at. Something we love that makes this world a better place. (Sorry guys, popping beer caps off bottles with your teeth doesn’t count.) The trick is to find a balance. Find the thing you love and do it with all your heart. But keep the ones you love close to you, and be willing to make sacrifices for them, too. Unless, of course, you want to be alone.

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