Does it count? I was in the sixth grade at a boy/girl party and we started to play spin the bottle. The bottle pointed to me and he crawled across the floor and kissed me straight on the lips. He announced that I was now his girlfriend. Since I was kissed in public there were witnesses I was his girlfriend. For life. One kiss which was really not a kiss and I was condemned for life to be his girlfriend and his wife. We were twelve years old and my life was over. I know what it feels like to be a child bride. But at least a child bride usually has a rich husband, I have to work to help support the household and we already lived in Chicago not India.

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