I was 13 and had met Ben, who was 20, a few weeks earlier.
This diary entry shows the trials and tribulations of trying to meet up with someone before mobile phones.
On reflection, I think it’s incredibly unlikely he had ‘work to do.’ He had initially told me he was an accountant, but it transpired he really just did admin for an accountancy firm.
“I forgot to put yesterday that I did the 1500 metres.
Mum went to Hazel’s for dinner tonight and I knew she was going so I wrote a letter to Ben saying to meet me outside the Old Infant School and put it through his door.
I waited for ages but he didn’t turn up so I went home but then he phoned up!
Just hearing his voice made me feel really strange and in love!
I love Ben SO much. He said he really wanted to come and see me but he had loads of work to do.”
Dater Analysis 
Hopefully he was simply trying to humor you. He must have known your age….?
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God knows what he was doing. He would always make up excuses why he couldn’t see me but he wrote me this letter saying he wanted to be with me and would break up with his girlfriend for me.
And when he said he couldn’t see me, he’d always say “definitely next week though!”
I think he probably didn’t want to see me because I was insanely young and he had a girlfriend, but he wanted to keep me on the back burner for the ego boost.
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