In grade school, I had a crush on a girl every year from Kindergarten to Grade 9.

I've never really had a full-blown crush, and I don't have any idea why not.

At the grocery store a few days ago I saw a girl I liked in high school. She had been one of the best students and was really nice. She’s some kind of naturopathic doctor now and was, like almost everyone there, unmasked. I pretended that I hadn’t seen her.

Another girl I liked was also nice and an excellent student. She now has the ADL on her résumé and is not Jewish. Thankfully I haven’t seen her since high school. I only found out about her involvement with the ADL because I googled her once.

A third similar girl I was obsessed with for years got a Ph.D, married a Spanish astrophysicist, and moved to Germany. I ran into her a few years ago and we had some nice conversations.

I am also completely surrounded by liberals and chuds. My spouse is a staunch anti-communist but masks, is okay with Free Palestine and landback, is to the left of Bernie, wants to travel to Cuba, is open to living in China, is a unionized nurse, has no interest in voting for Biden, and is super hot. Most Americans would consider her a communist if she described her political beliefs. But she thinks it’s okay to be a landlord. If I were single, I think I’d be happy with someone who at least identified as a communist.