The story for The Kingston High originated with one of my greatest frustrations in high school - dealing with the opposite sex. I never understood why even the really "good" girls were attracted to "roughnecks" (which was the original title of the script). I had a crush on a girl very much like Trina - attractive, smart, bi-racial and sadly attracted to a guy who really didn't take her very seriously. After a year of chasing after this girl, I finally got a date with her primarily because her friends seemed to like me. Man, I was really on cloud 9 for that summer. But in retrospect, I knew all along that it wasn't going to last. I may be wrong about this, but I think a guy chasing after a girl who's lukewarm about him is much worse off than the other way around. The guy seems to inevitably get dumped if he's too into any girl. I discovered the hard way that girls aren't really into guys that will do anything for them. So I got dumped. On the other hand guys will take advantage of a girl for worshipping the ground he walks on.

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