Two boys on bicycles, in love

Eleven-year-old Eric Darnell Pritchard was a lonely child. They preferred reading novels to playing sports, and watching soap operas to hanging out with the neighborhood kids. Although they were obsessed with love, they felt too different to find a romantic connection on their own.

Then a cute boy moved across the street. To Eric’s surprise, they both “like it liked each other. But when Eric told the wrong person about their new friend, things quickly spiraled out of control.

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