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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Lynne has been a wonderful companion for me since I arrived here at school. We met in the student union, she was having lunch and reading and I sat down next to her. We began talking and we really hit it off. She is a junior and studying marine biology. I told her that I am really a writer at heart, but am undecided on a major at this point in time. We both love to read and have little use for the partying scene here at school. We discovered that we are both living in apartments in the same complex. I live alone, but she has a roommate, who she says is a lot more into the college scene than she is, but she finds it interesting.

Lynne's family is originally from Guam, although they moved to the US when Lynne was just a baby. Now she considers herself from California, not Guam. In any case she is quite the scholarly type, not the typical college woman. She is 22 and just beautiful. Not the glamorous type, quite simple actually, but still beautiful inside and out. Quite honestly she is my first real relationship, not that I didn't date in high school, I did, but this is so much more of a relationship on an educated level as well as a physical one. We enjoy the same things and enjoy just being together.

She has yet to meet my family, although I have told them about her. I am a little leery of introducing her to them. I guess I am still that little boy looking for their approval. I know that my relationship with her is definitely serving me, but still somehow if they were to disapprove, I would be crushed. I am not sure why I keep searching to be the perfect son, perhaps it is because my brother has always been the ladies man, Mr. Popularity, dream son. I have always felt like a little bit of an outcast. I mean I was never as out going as Jeff was. I always have enjoyed spending time by myself and reading a good book. I don't mind school, or hard work. Surprisingly, since being here I have branched out a little more. I don't mind working at the restaurant. I really thought that I was going to hate it, but I actually enjoy watching the people. I don't always understand them, but I like it anyway.

Lynne has become my best friend, I can honestly tell her anything and she never judges me. She is really quiet and works in a quaint little bookstore in her spare time. She says it is a dream job for her. She has 3 large bookcases full of books, she likes to collect books, and she considers it like her trophy case for knowledge. I think it is pretty cool. She and I have been to several book signings together and lectures held by different writers. I think that she has been going out of her way to bring me with her as she knows that my true passion is writing. I don't want to write news; I want to write fantasy novels. I have shared some of my writing with her and she thinks it is really good, perhaps if I am brave enough to share my writing with others they might think the same.