Sometimes It's Not Just Black & White

Boys....They're everywhere.....  Yesterday I had a blast from the past friend request on Facebook.  Cameron.  I met him when I first moved to Ohio and he was part of the neighborhood crew that we ran around with.  He was HOT and my mother disapproved of him because he was mixed, so it all stands to reason that I would start to date him eventually.  He had very little parental supervision so he would come to my house and throw pebbles at my window until I came outside to hang out with the rest of our friends at the park down the street which most of the time meant smoking pot and drinking 40's or Zima.  Ahh, those were the days.  When life was uncomplicated and all I had to worry about was not failing out of school and what all my friends were doing for the weekend.

I don't remember why we didn't work out.  It was probably because he was a nice guy and I probably dumped him for someone else.  Hey, that's how I roll.  What I remember the most about him is that he bought me a beautiful bracelet for Valentine's Day and my mother made me give it back to him (which I didn't.  I just didn't wear it around her).  She didn't want me dating him because what if I fell in love with him and wanted to get married, OMG, we'd have interracial babies.  God, that would just be a disaster!!!  Kids growing up not understanding why they weren't fully black or white and not being fully accepted by either color.  WTF? 

Seriously mom?  You are the person that is supposed to be shaping me into a well-rounded productive member of society and at 15 you were worried about me making interracial babies?  I could sit here and tell you all about other ridiculous things from those years, but maybe another time, as they have to do with stories that I write.  Despite the dumb shit, I did turn out well-rounded and keep a "to each their own" attitude about how people live their lives.  Hey, as long as you're happy, so am I, so what if you're sacrificing small forest creatures in your basement at night?  I'm just sayin....

Cameron and I are getting together for drinks here soon.  We'll see how all that goes.  It'll be nice to see him after all this time and catch up with what's been going on in his life.......

(Me from waaay back when I moved here)