For Better or For Worse Comic Strip, February 16, 2013 on GoComics.com

It’s worse when someone you’ve had a crush on for 5 years gets into drugs and you can’t even recognize them as the same person after that.
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A girl I loved in junior high/high school once talked of going into the mission field, was academically in the top.
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And by her junior year was getting stoned and worse.
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Thirteen years later, I picked up a newspaper and she’s being profiled for homelessness. Her kid was born with birth defects from the drugs.
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Crushed is probably the word for what you feel.

Tog said, 3 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

That’s a very sad story. The future can be quite heartbreaking.

Jean said, 3 months ago

crushed is meeting your first love again some 40 years after highschool, start a new relationship with them only to have them crush your heart.

sjsczurek said, 3 months ago

Never take love seriously until you’re in your mid-twenties.

SUSAN NEWMAN said, 3 months ago

I had a childhood sweetheart, too.
We lost track of each other a LONG time ago.
But not even curiosity would make me join Facebook, Twitter, or any other social network!!

nemo5012 said, 3 months ago

There was a girl I knew in high school she was a year ahead of me. She got married after she got out and left the state. Met her again many years later found out she was divorced and started dating. We’ve been married now for 23 years just shows some things are meant to be.

Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

Lynn’s Notes:
I have to admit, when I had a crush on a boy in school, it lasted through rejection, embarrassment, and blatant teasing. When it eventually wore off, it was gone for good. I don’t see a lot of difference in the way I handle my relationships now!

John Pike said, 3 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

Crushed is probably the word for what you feel.

I am not trying to downplay the feelings you have over the tragedy of the girl in question. However, it reminds me of the garth brooks song, “Thank God for Unanswered Prayers”.

exturk said, 3 months ago

Crushed is when it takes three years (in HS) to finally ask a girl for a date.
And her 50 milliseconds to say no!

Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

I had one crush. Never got to even be friends with her. But it is gone but I still have memories of it and the silly things I did.

Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

I must say you have an extraordinary memory for names and faces. Plus the incredible luck to just happen to pick up a news paper etc. Amazing.
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More people are ruined by the Drug War’s penal approach to a medical condition than the drugs themselves. You are marked for life.

BROOKfan said, 3 months ago

Had a friend in NJ in the 1950s she moved away to CA got married I got married in 1969 retired to AZ did an online search a couple of years ago for those kids I knew back then found the girl and her husband living 20 miles away from us in AZ made contact and we all go out to lunch once a month Its a small world.

Ghille said, 3 months ago

@sjsczurek

I am one of 4 siblings. Both my brothers were married by 18 years old, and my sister married at 19. All are still married to their first sreious love…One brother married for 59 years, one widowed just short of 50 years and my sister married for 30 years now. I, on the other hand, married at 23 and was divorced by 32…stayed single from then on….once burned sort of thing. So…my point is, maybe those “young crush romances” are more serious than we think?