It's usually around adolescence that we start feeling attraction towards other people, and a desire to feel attractive ourselves; which is ironic, because puberty has a way of making us feel anything but. Thus, we seek validation from others finding us attractive.
When Anna and Maya hang out with the "cool girls," their new friends invite some boys over and they subject themselves to allowing the boys to pick which girl to make out with, schoolyard style. You know it's going to end badly before it even starts, with poor Anna being picked last by a young boy who she'd be more likely to babysit than make out with.
Kids today with their smartphones will never know the agony and the ecstasy of instant messaging. Us tweens would race home from school, fire up our dial-up internet and log on to AIM or MSN...just to talk to the kids we spent all day with.
Of course, finding the perfect handle was key. Often we would pick something way too racy for our age, sending any parent who watched Dateline into a panic.
Hence, Maya knew she found the perfect AIM name in "Viper911"...except someone else thought of it first. So as a backup, she unwittingly picked the most unsexy user name ever — "Diper911.
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