Talia

Age: 39. Female. Straight.

Age 13

The Bar Mitzvah Kiss

My first real kiss. In a field at an amusement park rented out for Adam Rabinovitch's luxe bar mitzvah. Awkward. Messy. I somehow walked away with a hickey.

Age 16

The Tortured Writer

He went to my camp friend's high school. He didn't wear underwear. Was a real tortured writer. We'd drive around in my teal Pontiac Sunfire, park, get high, and make out until my neck hurt.

Age 17

The Summer I Got Off Accutane

It was the summer after I got off my acne meds and was freshly de-braced. I met him at a house party I was def too young to be at. He was 10 years older than me. We fooled around for a few weeks. No "sex-sex," which teenage me considered a legal loophole.

Age 22

The Smooth Talking Law Student

Met at a youth leadership conference. Polar opposite politics. One late night argument turned into a makeout session. We dated for three months. We'd hook up, then he'd rollerblade home. After two tempestuous months, we mutually broke it off in a mall parking lot.

Age 26

The Foreign Mystery Man

Met in a hostel kitchen while backpacking across Europe. Ended up at a rave in a castle. Kissed all the way down the hill as the sun came up. Never learned his last name, but still remember his rock hard abs.

Age 30

The Competitive Sailor

He looked like a cologne ad. He sailed 470 sailboats. FOR A LIVING. Terrible in bed. Stayed for the body.

Age 36

The Blind Date

Blind date. A theatre director turned psychologist. Great conversation, deeply intense. He dumped me twice. I forgave him once. He kicked off my losing streak. It's been three years of no sex. I know he just broke up with his new girlfriend. I keep resisting the urge to call him for a no-strings-attached fling, something I could never admit to my best friend, so I haven't done it. Yet.

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