57 Forbidden Crushes Part 2: The Janitor

The Mortified Podcast

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🗓️ 17 April 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Part 2 in the Forbidden Crushes Series features a teenager’s infatuation with the school janitor. Mortified is a proud member of PRX from Radiotopia. Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast

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0:00.0	Radio Tapio.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.0	Dear diary.
0:11.0	6th grade. February 14th.
0:13.0	1991.
0:14.0	I am really depressed.
0:15.0	How could she break up with me?
0:17.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:24.0	I just saw him one day and he looked so beautiful to me.
0:28.0	And it just because we never spoke, it let this fantasy grow.
0:31.0	And it sort of was like, you know what?
0:33.0	You might overlook him, but I see something there.
0:36.0	He was private, he was smoldering, he was untouchable.
0:44.0	There are few things sexier than attraction born out of mystery.
0:47.0	And all these rumors were swirling around about him.
0:50.0	That he was a model and he was a drug lord.
0:53.0	It gives one's imagination a chance to run wild.
0:56.0	And before you know it, the fantasy completely overwhelms the not so sexy reality.
1:01.0	I would often sit near the trash can, for example, on the right side of the cafeteria,
1:06.0	because that's where he often was, cleaning.
1:09.0	It's very visceral for me.
1:11.0	I always just remember him wiping the tables in this circular motion,
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