Photo: Mariana Martins/EyeEm/Getty Images When I was 15 my very first boyfriend ghosted me. I wish I had been prescient enough to go around saying “Who gets ghosted in 1985?” but I didn’t even know what was happening. Instead, I was like, “Why is my boyfriend of at least six months not calling me?” He had to be dead, I thought, or lying in a ditch, and yet, somehow I knew that he was alive and fine, because if he weren’t, it would be on the news.
He was 18 and tall, but in the jackpot!, not the awkward sense. His bone structure was enviable, his mature expression enticing. I was wearing my usual evening attire: Sasson baggy jeans, an angora sweater from T.J. Maxx, low heels, and patterned stockings, also from T.J. Maxx. Eventually, we left my house and went to see the movie The Falcon and the Snowman, starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn, who, 30 years later, would claim Charlize Theron ghosted him .
It was into this wasteland that this older, good-looking person from another school walked. We did not have a terribly intense or deep relationship, but I think we liked each other well enough and I was extremely attracted to him. After The Falcon and the Snowman, I believe we went to one more movie, and then most of our relationship was just physical, but not, due to my age , “that.
By the third night I was starting to wonder — what if this person never calls me again? I was alone in the house, writing a term paper about Tennessee Williams, comparing Summer and Smoke and The Glass Menagerie. In retrospect, a girl in tenth grade in 1985 whose first boyfriend is ghosting her is about the only reasonable audience for Tennessee William plays, which are not very good. Alma and Laura and their humiliated heartbreak were much more than abstractions to me that night.
This was an interesting proposition. She asked me if I had a boyfriend. I told her that I had had one, sort of, but that suddenly he had just become absent. “I was sitting there writing a term paper on Tennessee Williams waiting for him to call me,” I said. “And we were like — I mean — I guess we were ‘going out’ — but then he never called me again.”
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