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I went to very few of them. I don't know if you had Tolo at your school. Tolo is where the girl asks the guy to the dance. Due to my vast unpopularity, no one asked me to Tolo in all three years of high school.

When I was a senior, I asked a girl I had had a crush on since sophomore year to the Senior Prom. She turned me down. I later found out that she turned me down because she was hoping my younger brother, who was just a sophomore that year, would ask her. He didn't. Still, very embarrassing.

I was a hot mess in high school.

I'm not one of those toxic assholes who insists that military service "will make a man out of you". But a couple of good things resulted. I became more physically fit. And I wore my hair, by necessity, in a shorter, much more flattering style. My strikeouts with women were soon a thing of the past.