Did your high school crush age like a fine wine or burn out like a bright star?

Huh, mine had a roller coaster of a life. I admire him more now than ever, and more than most people I know,

but I can't wrap my head around why I ever found him physically attractive. Maybe it was just

always his heart. By age 25, he had a PhD, a wife, and was captain in the Navy. By 30, he had two PhDs, a

small business where he made a metric but ton of money, and his wife was preggers. By 31, he was

diagnosed with stage 4 skin cancer that swiftly spread to his lymph nodes, bones, esophagus, and a few

other places. He was told he had a minimal chance of making it more than

five years. Even with the best health insurance money can buy, it still basically wiped him out.

Seven years later, he's living a comfortable but not extravagant life as a civilian contractor

for the Navy, same wife and two happy, healthy kids, and spends most of his free time advocating for better public health care. I remember walking up to her and asking if we could talk in private. She said, you can say what you need to in front of everyone else. Her group of friends was all around us. So I asked if she wanted to go on a date. She burst out laughing and said, yeah, um, no. It was rough, man.

Looked her up last year and she's a cage fighter now.

Mine, unfortunately, decided to not be alive anymore.

Found out later she had a crush on me as well.

Frick life sometimes.

They began acting.

It's weird.

Every so often I'll see a commercial or something and be like,

Oh, hey, I know them.

My crush is an incredibly sweet person, so I'm happy for them.

I had two unrealised crushes in high school. One is a teacher and a musician. She's married and has either one or two kids.

We've kept in loose contact via social media and ran into each other at a New Year's Eve party shortly before she got married.

I was introduced to her now husband as her favourite ex ever. He seemed like a decent guy and I'm happy for her.

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