I was a sophomore in high school when I met him. The air was sweet and smelled of fresh cut grass. The temperature was mild, but the humidity felt like someone had left the hot water running in a small shower stall. Joshua Andrew Mauzy was his name. He was a freshman then. He wore a pair of broken in blue jeans that were tight on his legs and a black T-shirt with some silly faded words on it. He had that smell of a man. The smell of a man is a sweet smelling mixture of sweat, oil, wood, aand some cologne. His cologne w

as Aspen. I will always remember his smell.

I called him, and we decided to meet at a quaint little park on the outskirts of Ashland City. I got there a little early so I could have time to think by myself. I sat on one of the picnic tables that overlooked the water. There were several different types of trees around me, but all I can tell you about them are that they were green and in full bloom. There was a duck sitting in the middle of the inlet. I remember watching the duck just sit there in the stillness of the water. I do not know how long I sat there or how long he sat watching me. What I do know is that when I noticed he was there, he came to stand in front of me and gently tilted my fact towards him. As he was moving my face, he was wiping the teas off my cheeks with his fingertips. I did not have to say a word; my eyes said it all. He wrapped his arms around me and held me until the sun went down.

Over time, Josh and I became very close friends. We would talk about everything, from how things were going at home, to boyfriends an

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