There's one person who has had an enormous impact on my life, my friend Ashley. Even now there's so much attached to my memories of her. Because of her I realized I was bi and my loving her hasn't really gone away. I'm not sure I want it to, despite all the pain it's caused me. I kind of regret not asking her out and seeing how things would've worked out. Although, it would never have happened because despite the fact that she claimed that she was bi, she was just straight all along. I won't forget her.

Konnichiwa! Onamaewa?

I'll start off by giving you my name. That name is Dallas and no, I've never lived in the city Dallas so don't even go there. I live in Texas, which is pretty great most of the time.

Do any of you guys remember that person who managed to be truly the first best friend that you ever had? I do and she was such a huge influence on my life. While we are going in different directions now, her taking care her baby and being engaged and me still struggling to pass school. She, in a way, shaped some of my views on things. She's the one person that I hope I won't forget.

My friend Ashley had come down to visit me and we were in Kroger. We were running around acting crazy and we wound up at the end of the make up isle. I really wanted to go find my dad but Ashley didn't want to, so I started pulling on her sweater to make her follow me. Well, that didn't exactly work, she just shimmied right out of her sweater and started to run away with nothing on but her bra. So I start yelling, "Ashely, get your ass back over here! You can't do that!" All Ashley does is turn around and stick her tongue out and do the whole 'na-na-boo-boo' thing. Then she starts running again and so do I and I finally caught up to her in the baby isle and I jammed her sweater over her head. She puts it on very reluctantly. Then my dad finds us RIGHT after Ashley puts her sweater back on. Talk about a close call! That would have been very awkward to explain.