alaki-chan

 I had my first crush on a boy when I was three. In fact, it's kind of family lore that I came home from preschool one day and told my parents that if I couldn't marry Matthew, "I would die." It was apparently then that my dad, the adolescent psychologist, started stomping around the house reciting some angry monologue about how this was all the Disney corporation's fault, "Females at this age are so impressionable. Thanks to all of these dependent princesses, thousands of girls are going to grow up waiting for a man to save them!" This, however, was not the type of girl I would grow up to be. I had crush after crush after crush in elementary