Wow this post is still alive! Amazing!
While reading this I realized that my best friend from kindergarten was a girl named Emma, but she was a total tomboy and I can’t remember her seeing her as a girl at all. We’d climb trees, go explore stuff, build things, all that. She lived pretty far away so when we started school she went to another and we lost contact.
She’s the sole reason for my life long affiliation for tomboys, so with a little imagination I’m preeeetty sure she’d be that “he doesn’t even recognize me as a girl, much less a lover” girl, if we had just stayed in touch. Too bad we never vowed to get married so she could’ve showed up unexpectedly, you know the drill.