I just learned . . .

that the first boy who ever kissed me is dead.

I don't know the circumstances. Just a mention on his sister's Facebook page that he had passed away.

We weren't dating, it wasn't a thing, and I hadn't kept in touch in any way: just . . . he was someone I knew in high school and in church. We were in the summer drama program together, and I don't even really remember the circumstances. Just . . .we were in the costume room, and for some reason, at one point he laughed and kissed me and then bounced out of the room. He probably didn't think anything of it. He was just like that: funny and exuberant. But I was fourteen, and it was the first time anyone had done anything like that to me before.

Cool animation

Jeff Chiba Sterns documents the past 9 years of his life, along with other events, on nothing but yellow sticky notes.

Thanks to knitmeapony for the link.

Oh, wow

A daguerreotype has been found which may be the earliest photograph of Abraham Lincoln. (Thanks to the ever eagle-eyed knitmeapony for the link.)

sistermagpie pointed it out: you know who he looks like?

Severus Snape.

Hmm . . . deprived childhood . . . lost the girl he loved and hoped to marry when he was a young man . . . derided for his looks . . . without his role, the war would have been lost . . . murdered right at the point the war was won . . .

The mind reels . . .

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

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