“Aðiævlikâ”

crush portrait naive

Late in freshman year I developed a massive crush on a quiet blonde on the bus to school. At first it was slight but grew into an embarrassing obsession. Aðiævlikâ turned out to be the heaviest crush during high school; I never did let another girl then carry me away quite as irrationally. She did not become an imago like Akimalâ. Everything about her became magical, the way she rested her knees on the back of the seat in front of her, her piercing blue eyes and apparently demure demeanor. One way young artists capture the crush is by drawing her portrait. I didn’t yet have courage to approach her, being the smallest boy out of a hundred fifty freshmen, the very bottom of the high school social ladder. So I drew her portrait from her yearbook photo. By sophomore year the crush faded; in 1988 I visited my first girlfriend Aximelâ’s house and Aðiævlikâ was there in all her glory. At that point I was on my way to university, confident and refined, and not at all interested in my first intense crush. Produced 13 March 1985 = Tayya 339a, 10th grade, three dozen third phase (Ralysa Vianjegajñal Xrga).

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