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A friend here on the Theater has been gently nudging me to get around to relating this story for quite a while now, so I'm finally getting around to it. Emily and I didn't date for all that long, for mostly logistical reasons; there came a time when she had to leave town to take a job across...

A couple weeks ago my wife and I were sitting on the sofa -- I was reading; she was flipping TV channels with increasing dissatisfaction. At some point, unbeknownst to me, she gave up on the TV and cast her gaze in my direction. Then she flexed two of her fingers into little crooks, reached...

So, shortly after college I dated a girl who was a hardcore Republican. We couldn't have had less in common politically, but we had a blast together... for a while, anyway. One of her favored hobbies was cornering or immobilizing me and then tickling me relentlessly until I said something nice...

If someone could arrange for me a tickle-fight with this specific individual, I'd be most appreciative. And if it turns out that she's not particularly ticklish, well, in my case that's probably even better. I'd ask my significant other but I think she's already planning on getting me some...

My fiancee has a good friend, Carla; I know her through my fiancee and over time we've all gotten pretty chummy. She's a little bit older than us but not by much; I think at one time, long ago, she might have been kind of a mentor to my fiancee but now it's just a very comfortable friendship...

When I was dating her, Lauren was a law student. She had keen brown eyes and an adorably bewitching way of arching her eyebrow. She dimpled when giving a crooked smile, which was the only kind of smile she gave. Her hair was straight and brown and unassuming, usually thrown back in a...

A friend of mine is an actress and this past Saturday I went to see an afternoon of staged readings of short plays that she was performing in. It was a bunch of different plays, all by different people, and one of them (not one that my friend was in) had as its centerpiece a surprisingly...

One of my girlfriends in college was Rachel, a cute, petite and brainy little thing with smart black-rimmed glasses, short shaggy brown hair and an open, adorable face that she never adorned with makeup. She also had these soft and nimble hands, nails closely trimmed, and pretty, slender but...

It never fails. It's inescapable. Its timing is unpredictable but its unavoidability is inevitable. At some point extremely early in a new relationship with a girlfriend, when you've still got tons of things to learn about each other--movies you hate, books you love, childhood pets, personal...

Anyone else have this reaction?: I see some of the clips on this forum, and remarkably often my gut response is something like this: Yikes, why isn't he laughing more hysterically? Why isn't she struggling more desperately? Oh my God, how can he take it, why isn't he going ballistic right...

Every year my family would take a trip to the South Carolina beach with my aunts and uncles and cousins, renting a beach house and idling through a week of leisure. On one of those last trips, I was a high-school sophomore. My cousin Angie was a high-school senior and my cousin Kathy was a...

So I was out to lunch with three coworkers. One of them was Jennifer, who some months earlier had discovered to her delight that I was ticklish. Her new favorite hobby in the office, thereafter, was to come up behind me as I was sitting at my desk and start running her fingers up and down my...

I assume this story goes in this section, even though it's true. In college, Sarah was my girlfriend's best friend, but we always had a thorny and prickly relationship--had to put up with each other because of my girlfriend, but probably wouldn't hang out otherwise. Sarah was fair-skinned with...