All we want is Love

When I was in 6th grade, every night before I went to bed, I would talk to God in my head and ask that he let girls like me.

All I wanted was to be the guy--which in my mind seemed all my home bois were--the ladies loved.

Then Perlita, one of my best friends, moved away. And I dedicated a song to her. I said "From now on, when I hear this, I'll think of you." And maybe I didn't say that, but I did think it, and it definitely does happen. EVERY time I hear the song I think of her, no matter where I am.

There are only four other songs I can think of off the top of my head that also remind me of women, and two of them throw me back to the same young lady.

We never kissed.

We never sexed.

We never saw each other exclusively.

All the songs that take me back to a time, take me to my friends, the people I could talk to. And after Perlita moved, I realized that was really what I needed.

So I stopped asking God to let girls like me.