I have a good ten people who have promised to send me boyfriend lists, and they are all delinquent! Maybe they're harder to write than I imagine. My friend NP says that she got bogged down when she got to the boyfriend she believed (temporarily) was the "son of god."

Anyway, I know hers will be juicy when she gets around to finishing it, and for the time being I'll pony up my own list:

Boys from Before I Turned Eighteen, including many unofficial entries

1. He asked me out when I was wearing a poodle skirt on fifties day. We "went together" for three weeks, during which we never once touched one another or spoke on the telephone. He broke up with me by telling all his friends and letting it get back to me through the grapevine.
2. I just thought about him all the time and he never once looked at me.
3. I gave him my number and said he should call me, but when he did I felt this sickening feeling like he just suddenly grossed me out, so I said we should just be friends.
4. We held hands and went out for cake together, but I didn't think he was anything like a boyfriend until later, looking back.
5. He held my hand at a party, called and took me out, kissed me, and then didn't seem to remember who I was when I called him! Then, when I transferred to his school a while later, I found out he'd told everyone I was a great girl and acted like he knew me well.
6. I asked him to a dance, and he said "absolutely." Then we made out in his car. But by the time the dance occurred three weeks later, we had already broken up.
7. He had dated two of my friends, and we called him "the stupid mod" -- but he wanted to go out, so out we went. I liked him. I just didn't like kissing him.
8. I was crazy about him. I think he was crazy about me. I met his mom. He had a mowhawk. But he had gone out with one of my best friends, and she made it clear she was never getting over him -- so nothing ever happened. Later, he became a rock star.
9. He asked me to a dance and I couldn't believe he even knew who I was. We went out for six weeks, and he dumped me at a party where I had no other way to get home except with him and his friends. I rode in the back seat, crying the whole way home.
10. He brought me a candy ring and drove home from school, and I still didn't realize he liked me until years later -- when we dated for a very long time.
11. Summer drama camp. I'm saving this one for an upcoming book called Drama-Rama.
12. I found love with a guy who wore velvet shorts to school and hadn't cut his hair in two years. The whole thing was difficult and magical and broke my heart many times over.