Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...twenty-sixth birthday, Jessica Darling runs into her ex-boyfriend at the airport. When he learns Jessica missed her flight, Marcus fabricates his own travel mishap. Stranded together for 12 hours, they finally sort out their decade long history, without particular emphasis what happened in the three years since she turned down his marriage proposal. “Perfect Fifths,” Megan McCafferty’s fifth novel, is light reading, but it’s also an intelligent, stylized, humorous exploration of the psychology of memory and narrative. Since McCafferty’s debut...
...follow them as a third wheel. Jane plays the violin brilliantly but loves punk; she’s the kind of girl who softly asks, “Do you like pie?” in an accent caught somewhere between Tennessee and the acting studio. Cleveland, her boyfriend, is the most American of young heroes—a rebel without a cause, a lost genius falling into the unstoppable maelstrom of his own reckless energy. Together Jane and Cleveland make for a sort of Abercrombie and Fitch representation of youth, their skin literally glowing under the soft gaze...
...evening of milk and cookies with a group of lovely people who should be gently encouraged to bathe more, your host tells you that you can’t walk through the bedroom to your sleeping bag because, at long last, her roommate and her roommate’s boyfriend are consummating their relationship. You climb out onto the roof, crawling along a drain pipe until you reach a window that you think is yours. It’s not, but you climb inside and fall asleep anyway. In the morning, you are awakened by Harvard pop sensation Peter Shields...
...This was the best night ever until my boyfriend came and saw me dressed as a woman,” said Bambi, a Harvard student who wished to be referred to by his stage name. Bambi’s distraught boyfriend soon stormed...
...Infield fly rule=unexpected and unwelcome unzipping of pants; bunt=kissing her hand and then attempting to move to lips; Kirby Puckett=her ex-boyfriend; third base=vague; hit by pitch=hit by bus while kissing date; first base coach=guy who helps you make out; Cal Ripken, Jr.=making out with same girl 2,632 consecutive times; called third strike=leave theater, get popcorn, return, date absent; inside the park home run=artificial insemination; suicide squeeze= “DO ME OR I’LL KILL MYSELF”; Registrar Barry S. Kane=inventor of the suicide squeeze...