Early sophomore year, I fall in love with Alejandro “Ale” Plesch. We meet during the first month of Introductory Mandarin Chinese, fatefully paired for a vocabulary exercise. I had already been watching him. His lean, athletic build would cross the classroom every morning—skate-board tucked under one arm—and my eyes would secretly usher…
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