Shawn L. Bird

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the cute nerd June 28, 2014

Filed under: Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 1:29 pm

This post came up when I asked for a random post. It made me chuckle, so I thought I’d share it with you, being as there are some ten thousand more of you reading my posts now, than did back when I first posted it! 🙂 Enjoy!

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I have just had a shocking epiphany. Once upon a time when I was in elementary school, I had a wild crush on a scrawny, goofy nerd. When I looked back at this memory while I was writing Grace Awakening, I had a sense of moral superiority over my affection for the kid. He had his talents, sure, and a sense of humour to boot, but he wasn’t building his biceps in the gym after school and he wasn’t going to be signed in any model search. In fact, I built the first meeting of Ben and Grace on the foundations of this premise: that her first sight of him has no impact because he’s “just another band dweeb to pass in the halls,” until he starts playing his music and she loses herself in the unexplicable connection as their destinies entwined.  It was important that there was no attraction before…

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10 Responses to “the cute nerd”

  1. this is so strange.when you were talking about his glasses ,i was thinking about bob 9th-12th grade. he was in the band & played guess -the sousaphone.lol we were in all the same classes even math. band director said get a flute & you can be in the band so i did. and we played a piano sousaphone duet at all state.


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