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How old were you when you had your very first boyfriend/girlfriend? Do you still know them now? 
Submitted by KIM. 

Ah, boyfriends.  To tell you the truth, I haven't had very many.  I guess that's what happens when you marry the same person you were dating when you were 17... but anyway, for the sake of answering the question... let's get into the Way Back Machine.

I guess we should start with High School, because, if memory serves -- middle school boyfriends are only your boyfriend so that the two of you can see who can break-up with whom in the lunch room first...

My first boyfriend of my 9th grade year was a boy named Matt.  Matt and I first met at a party being thrown by a set of twins with whom I'd been friends since I was 10.  We'll call them T and D.  Matt and D dated briefly, but ultimately agreed that they would be better off as friends.  So anyway Matt was invited to the party as was I.  T and D had a pool table in their basement -- where the party was being held -- where upon Matt and I got acquainted over a friendly game of pool.  At the end of the evening Matt asked me for my phone number, which I gave him, and in a later phone conversation asked me if I would be his girlfriend.  I said "Sure." or something to that effect, and it was official. We were a 'couple'.  Our relationship continued and grew over the next few weeks until I met someone else who's girlfriend I'd rather be, at which time I had my friend Lisa call Matt and deliver the bad news.

To answer the later half of the question, I have absolutely no idea what became of Matt.  He was a nice enough kid though, and I hope he's gone on to do and see lots of wonderful things in the past 11 years.

What's odd though, is that 3 later in that very same basement I met my husband over a game of pool on that very same table.  It's like T and D's pool table was the alpha and the omega of my 3 year long dating career.