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My Best Friend and I Were Propositioned for Sex While Walking to Dinner
Why some men still have so much to learn.
My best friend Keri and I have been taking walks together since we were teenagers.
She grew up on the same road as me and became my built-in best friend when, one day, we ran into each other in the woods behind our houses — she was 5, and I was 7.
When we were old enough, our parents let us take walks to the minimart one mile from our houses. We thought we were hot shit and too big for our britches, with $5.00 a piece in our pockets to get a back of chips, a soda, and whatever else we could get for that amount of money in the early 2000’s.
We’d look for boys at the local school as we walked by but usually didn’t see anyone important.
As we got older, we became each other’s travel buddies. We’ve been to some cool places together, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salem, Massachusetts, and most recently, Sleepy Hollow, NY.
Over all the years we’ve been going on adventures together, I’ve never felt unsafe. My parents taught me from a young age that I should never go anywhere I wasn’t familiar with alone at night.
As an adult, I married a 6'1" bearded former ARMY Sergeant, who looks a lot meaner than he…
