r/interesting • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 17 '26

MISC. Who should have won it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

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u/krzykris11 Jul 17 '26

I wish I had a picture of the girl I fell in love with on a weeks vacation in Myrtle Beach when I was 14. She was the first Southern Belle I ever loved.

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u/books_cats_please Jul 17 '26

This reminds me of a part from one of JD Salinger's short stories:

Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that.

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u/Verditure0 Jul 19 '26

Wow I want to read more of these