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Old 01-07-2007, 08:59 AM   #1
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How old were you when you went on your first date?
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Old 01-07-2007, 09:00 AM   #2
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I was 13 and we kissed but it didn't last more then a few days
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I don't remember, 11 or 12 maybe. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] I had just turned 17 (the summer between Grades 11 & 12) when I went on my first date with my DH. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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16...if you count going to your Prom with a friend as a date. If not, 19
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5? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] I had a childhood sweetheart in Germany and we played together all the time. First kiss w/ him was at 11. We both just assumed we'd stay together forever and get married when I was 17 (when I graduated from high school), but it never occurred to either of us that my Dad would move us back to the States. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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16. My parent's had a strict rule about not dating until you are 16.
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If I remember correctly - 8th grade Dance...12 years old?
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I was 14. It was the beginning of my freshman year and my best friend's cousin had just moved to town and didn't know anybody. We met at her house and hit it right off. A few weeks later I asked him to the Sadie Hawkin's dance. He was a year ahead of me and we dated off and on for about 4 years. More "off" after he graduated. He was the one who always broke it off and I was the idiot who always took him back. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] Anyway, I got a call from him one day at work a couple months after I graduated. I hadn't heard from him in months. I wasn't about to start dating him all over again. I had learned my lesson from high school. Besides I had met DH by then, and we both knew that it was the real thing. Believe me....Love at first site IS REAL! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] So I told him that I had met somebody else and I was really happy. That was the last time I ever spoke to him and that was over 26 years ago.
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Gosh, I don't even remember. We did a lot of group things in high school, so I'll have to say 18 maybe??
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It was my 8th grade graduation dance so 14.
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I don't know that I have actually ever had an official date...I can remember groups of us going out and then one of the guys might offer to pay for my movie or meal or whatever during the night, but I'm not sure that really counts, lol.
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] 14 - and my parents didnt' know
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