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I’m From Fairless Hills, PA.

by christopher cuttone

Wednesday April 22, 2009

I was a really small kid, so people always thought I was a lot younger than I was – like, when I was 10 they thought I was 5. They also often thought I was a girl, I guess because I had a delicate, sort of pretty face and kept my hair kind of long. It also didn’t help that for a while I was obsessed with unicorns, so I had lots of t-shirts with unicorns on them, and the shirts were mostly pastel colors because only girls like unicorns, right?

One day when I was about 10 or 11 years old, I was wearing this sweet baby blue T-shirt with a herd of unicorns running across the chest leaving a rainbow in their wake. On the back were fuzzy white iron-on letters spelling “I LOVE UNICORNS.” I was at the grocery story by myself that day, getting a bunch of candy and plastic crap out of the gumball machines. Out of nowhere, another boy came up to me; I’m not sure if he was older, but he was definitely bigger and more physically mature. In my memory he’s 13 or maybe even 14, but he was probably closer to my age – my real age, not the age I looked. Anyway, he rolls up to me on his bike and says, “I love unicorns too.” I just stared at him, frozen, and couldn’t say anything.

Looking back, it feels as if he could have been my first boyfriend if I had the courage to talk to him. Sometimes I think he was, even if he didn’t know it, and even though I never saw him again.

Tags: boyfriend, childhood, Christopher Cuttone, Fairless Hills, gay men, Pennsylvania, unicorns
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12 Comments

Nathan on Apr 22, 2009 at 10:14 am

First the Nintendo Kiss story and now this… I think IFD is giving Cute Overload a run for its money.
Patrick on Apr 22, 2009 at 11:37 am

I love unicorns too.
rafi on Apr 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Good lord, everyone here is so cute lately! Haha… I’d love to get that shirt.
Jason on Apr 22, 2009 at 6:57 pm

This one’s for you, Christopher…

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF103-Nice_Shirt.gif
Nathan on Apr 22, 2009 at 8:42 pm

hahahahahahaha. everyone needs to look at Jason’s link. awesome.
kate w. on Apr 22, 2009 at 11:43 pm

thanks Christopher. and thanks Jason.

amazing adorable awesome power.
Marquise on Apr 23, 2009 at 4:41 pm

hahaha awesome comic! Awesome story!
David on Jun 3, 2009 at 6:24 pm

Great story, Christopher, and nicely worded.
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Jessie on Jul 5, 2009 at 11:05 pm

I NEED to know where to find this shirt.
present on Nov 16, 2012 at 8:18 am

I BURST INTO TEARS!!!!!!!!!

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