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I will call this mystery person in this paragraph Brian. My first year in high school I had an advanced chemistry tudor and at the end of the tutoring session, the tudor said “You know what you should meet Brian.” I knew who that was because I had heard people talk about this person in a way that was promising and superior. I had consistently seen this person at track, sports, study hall, church, and the guidance department. I had a conversation with the person and he told me I looked like Barbie.
I then began seeing the person more and more and he became more visible. I then found myself being recommended to the same very elitist organization and institution. We got along extremely well and he was very calm and able to have a good conversation with me and keep my general presence level. We ended up belonging to the same organization and institution and the situation was somehow setup so I would be in a relationship with the person. Fun fact: I went to 6 high school proms.
I met a lot of people in college and a specific situation that I found to be inappropriate was this other guy was interested in me. I did not have the same major as the person, and he kept going out of his way to come after me when I told him that I was not interested in addition to him trying to influence other people.
Brian was older and visiting for the holiday weekend. We were out the whole time with friends, to dinner, and at parties. My experience with this person was extremely easy and very socially acceptable. At this point, I find this experience to be my life. More advice from my professional and personal experiences is that when a respectable, authoritative, administrative person makes a decision about a person and a situation there isn’t really anything you can do about the situation.