Whereas some people didn’t develop romantic feelings for the opposite gender until puberty struck, I can recall having crushes as early as 3 and 4 years of age.
My very fist crush was none other than LeVar Burton, host of Reading Rainbow. I remember being very distraught and confused when I saw him playing his other famous TV character: blind Lieutenant Geordi La Forge on Star Trek.
In real life, my first crush was Carl Huntington. We went to preschool together. Rather than having a sandbox, our preschool had a huge crate of corn kernels that we played in. I distinctly remember plotting ways to lure Carl into the corn crate with me with the intention of kissing him. You may ask, what turned my affections off for young Carl? Well, quite simply, one day he wore a tight white turtleneck to school. During story time, I noticed that while sitting Indian style, Carl had quite the belly rolls (at four years old, I believe this is called ‘baby fat’), nonetheless, this turned me off to dear Carl.
This story is quite infamous in my household. In fact, when Scott and I got married, in an act of jest, my sister, Ann, constructed a wedding card for me. On the front was a magazine clipping of a man in a tight white turtleneck. Ann had glued Scott’s picture over the model’s face and drawn an arrow to his midsection. She wrote, “Hey look, no belly rolls!” And on the inside, “So now you can happily walk down the aisle and say ‘I do.’
Okay, I digress a little with the story. My true intention for this blog post is to discover who was your first crush? Other really stellar crushes in my past include:
-Prince Erik from the Little Mermaid (yeah, the cartoon character)
-The axe throwing hottie, Sully, from Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
-Huck Finn, as played by Elijah Wood
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