Welcome!
Congrats on going back to school and on your "fade". Moving makes fading sooo much easier.
I'm old enough to be your mother but I was raised "in" so I know the convention meatmarket well.
I once had a guy from a different town show up unannounced outside my high school after talking to him at the DC. Creepy!
At a different DC I met up with two guys I had known when I was little. They both started writting to me (this was in pre-historic times, not cell phones, no internet). When one found out I was writting to the other he sent me a scathing letter calling me every name in the book. I guess he thought he owned me.
changeling :)