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I was in my second year at Howard, living in the infamous Meridian Hill dorm and could not have felt more disconnected from everything around me. Interning at two really great companies, able to bring my car to campus for the first year, living in my own single room and truthfully, hating all of it. At that time, I couldn't nail down why, and even greater, had no reason to say anything. My friends were killing it and on the outside, I was making strides too, to my own dismay. It takes a truly strong person to take a step back and recalculate when things have somehow gone out of sorts and looking back, sometimes I'll wish that's what young Kelly did. Instead, she set a date and tattooed it to her right shoulder (The devil or the angel of reason, it depends what day of the week truthfully).

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Seeing as we graduated from the same college and his hometown is near my own family's roots, why not? I connected with his plight. I dare anybody to name the last friend they made as an adult; Most can't, because making friends is more difficult when you're off the playground and consumed with different worries. And I've definitely been that person before. It's so interesting seeing people socially or through social media and thinking y'all have so much in common, you could actually be friends. But how, do you present someone with a friendship contract, a la Cynthia Bailey? Or do you slide in their DMs because they look too cool to pass up? That was the actual compliment and yes, I am that cool. 

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We got into an argument (I couldn't remember what about). Next scene, I was walking through a residential or community lounge lobby with no shoes trying to avoid him and he comes from my left and asks me to talk. I agree, but first say I have to put some shoes on. I walk to another room and wrestle between two tables of sneakers, then he calls me. His name in my phone was something with "boy" in it. Then, we went for a ride in his truck and that's all I remember.

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So apparently, I’m not Joan Clayton. Even on my bougie days, I could be Toni Childs. But today, at this moment, I’m Lynn Searcy.

For anybody who's confused ten times over, these are characters from the ICONIC *Joanne the Scammer voice* show, Girlfriends. There through thick and thin. Yo girllllllllfriends. 

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Virgo - The disappointed goddess. 

Attracted to intelligent but distant men, a Virgo woman has a strong capacity to love, but chooses to wait for sharing emotions until she is ready. Private and defensive (OMG, yes), this is someone who needs her defense mechanisms respected but still broken by the right partner. (astrology-zodiac-signs.com)

I swear someone broke into the last 23 years of my life to write this. I'm literally ready to call the cops. 

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