Any woman who spent her formative years, surrounded only by other girls will tell you the same thing: you never really shake off the idea that boys are the most fascinating, beguiling, repulsive, bizarre creatures to roam the earth; as dangerous and mythological as a Sasquatch.
I slowly began to realize that it’s best for those first dates to happen in real life rather than in the written form, otherwise the disparity between who you imagine the other person to be and who they actually are grows wider and wider.