In middle school, I desperately wanted a boy (any boy) to give me a mizpah charm necklace. That never happened.

What I got was a BFF gold charm from a girl and years later she wore it to my wedding, which was very sweet and thoughtful, but . . .

it still doesn't change that no boy in 7th or 8th grade thought me worthy of a symbol that demonstrated an "emotional bond between people who are separated (either physically or by death)."

I'll show them.