The first girl I had a crush on. I made her the center of my world. I worshiped the ground she walked on. I idolized her.
Needless to say, after I wrote her mom on the school board 3 love letters (which she then emailed to her daughter), the first thing she said in her reply was,
"I had no idea you felt this way about me!"
She proceeded to say that she had a boyfriend who she loved very much, but that there was a nice girl out there for me too.
Sometimes I wonder if the year was 2015 and not 2005 if her reply would have been as kind (or existent, even).