Categories: It Happened to Me

There’s a Back Story Here…

Seen this morning on the eastbound platform of High Park subway

station: a discarded day-old boutonniere sitting on top of a pay phone.

I’ve seen enough dates to semi-formal school dances gone wrong — many

of them my own — to imagine scenarios that would’ve led to this:

Joey deVilla

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  • Sometimes I think it's good not to have grown up in the North American school system :)

    At least I wouldn't have associated anything with this.

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