"Passion at its finest" (Valentine's Day special)

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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From secret crushes to breakup poems, raging hormones to long distance love letters... it's a very special episode of Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids dedicated to love, romance, and the awkward, awesome things things that can happen when kids fall in, and out of love.

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0:00.0	When Amanda was 12, she went through her very first breakup, and she wrote about it in her diary.
0:09.0	Dear diary. Okay, Ben just broke up with me. He said it wasn't me, and he still thinks I'm hot and rates me a 9 out of 10.
0:20.2	But he said he wants to be single for like a month.
0:25.2	I wasn't mad at him, but just surprised.
0:28.1	He still said on the phone, I think you're hot, so everything's okay.
0:36.5	That's Amanda, reading from the diary she kept when she was 12, and this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:45.4	I'm Dan Meisner.
0:46.7	Usually on the show, we bring you lots of different types of childhood and teenage writing, but this time, to celebrate Valentine's Day, we're doing something
0:55.0	a little different. We've gone through the grown-ups rethinks they wrote its kids archive, and we
0:59.3	are playing you some of our all-time favorite readings about young love. From secret crushes to
1:06.6	break up poems, raging hormones, to long-distance love letters. It is a very special episode dedicated to love, romance, and the awkward, awesome things that can happen when kids fall in and out of love.
1:23.1	So think about your crush when you were a kid and stick around.
1:34.7	Music So think about your crush when you were a kid and stick around. When Dave was 17, he wrote a love letter to a girl he spent two summers with at camp.
1:41.5	A quick heads up, Dave's letter includes some cuss words, which we don't bleep. It also
1:46.1	acknowledges the existence of sex and the existence of drugs. There's your heads up, live on stage in
1:52.5	Toronto. Here's Dave. Dear Julia, before I begin, I want to know that nothing you've done brought on
1:58.1	what I'm about to say. It's obvious by now that you know how much I love and care for you. You don't know this, but you're the world to me. Not a day
2:04.6	goes by when I'm not thinking about you constantly. I don't even know exactly what it is that brought
2:08.5	on this crazy adoration for you, but whatever it was, it worked. This isn't another one of those love
2:13.2	letters. It's more of a way for me to be able to live my life normally, rather than always upset and crying because I can't be without you.
2:19.3	Or because I can't be with you.
2:21.3	Although I know our relationship has been fine,
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