Neither had I, and neither had she, until we met, and then it happened almost immediately, and we… | by Thom Garrett | Medium

I’ve never been comfortable assigning loved ones and friends affectionate names. And whenever I looked at my boyfriends and thought I would try a term of endearment such as baby or…

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1 min readOct 14, 2016

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Neither had I, and neither had she, until we met, and then it happened almost immediately, and we rarely used names after that.

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