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"  My Valentine&amp;#039;s Day: spent the night before over at my Big&amp;#039;s house making heart-shaped cookies, painting our nails and catching up on girl talk. Creepy Valentines left in front of my door when I came back at 9 AM (whatever! I finished eating all of the chocolate today!), and then crazy drama until 7 AM the next morning. Extremely eventful, but also extremely difficult to wake up the next morning on three hours of sleep and show up to class. So, it&amp;#039;s been awhile, so I suppose I should write about boys, or rather how I feel at the moment. I haven&amp;#039;t been as open about it as I could have been, because I usually like to keep things private, but I want to be serious now. I am not a serial dater, because I can only be fixated on one person at a time. I think that crushes are terribly fun to have, because at that stage, it&amp;#039;s really easy for me to change my mind. At the same time, I don&amp;#039;t date just to date. I am slow to warm up but sentimental on the inside. I am not a girl who experiences &amp;quot;love&amp;quot; with everyone or in every single relationship, because I think that that&amp;#039;s not genuine, and I value honesty above all else. I&amp;#039;ve only been in love once, but I think that once you fall in love, it&amp;#039;s forever, even if you don&amp;#039;t always feel the same about it. Love is about growing and learning, about making a permanent impact on someone&amp;#039;s life; a stamp that they will always remember, even after you have departed from each others&amp;#039; lives. I have taken a break from guys for the past five months, just as a personal catharsis. It wasn&amp;#039;t just about transitioning to college or not wanting to dive into more drama immediately, it was mostly about me and having a time in which I could solely focus on myself and look toward what I wanted. There was a time for that, but now it is over. I am ready to come out of my shell. Despite this V-Day (or D-Day?), I feel extremely positive about the future. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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