03-07-03 - 6:23 p.m.
because i never had a real high school sweetheart, today i asked patrick to go steady with me. he laughed, not because the idea of 'going steady' at his age is absurd, but because we've outlived the skeptics and turned what was supposed to be a frivolous workplace fling into an enduring, slightly twisted love affair of three years. and i'm almost certain no high school jock ever looked as fetching in a bathrobe.