My Boyfriend, The Pot Farmer

I met Nick in high school: Back then, he really liked me, but I blew him off for someone else. Fifteen years later, we reconnected at a wedding. I’d heard that in the meantime he became a professional soccer player and part-time surfer. When I saw him, I noticed he had a great body, but he didn’t seem like the professional-athlete type ... not anymore, at least. He had long hair, tattoos, a super-easy-going demeanor — basically, he seemed like he came to the wedding straight from Burning Man. I remember thinking, So, Nick is a full-blown hippie?

But we had a great time. I liked him. He told me he was living in California, working in “sustainable agriculture,” and I said, “Like …you grow eggplants?” He said, “Yeah, something like that.”

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