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There's something about a good kiss that can stick with you.
That can give you butterflies even decades later.
For the past few weeks,
we've been asking listeners to share stories with us about their most memorable kiss.
And the minute you asked about the most memorable kiss, I went back to 1980 when I was 17 years old.
Let's carry from New Orleans.
And I went on a couple dates with my brother's friend who at the time was a ticket scalper which was ooh taboo back then and he was my brother's friend which was like a double taboo so i think there might have been a little bad boy influence involved but honestly it was just a very sweet well timed kiss i mean it wasn't too soft it wasn't too mushy it wasn't too hard it wasn't too without getting graphic moist it was just right the right amount of time the right amount of tongue,
sorry, and that was a long time ago, so it's been in my little brain cells for a little while,
and I like to think about it every once in a while.
Many of us, like Carrie, have had a kiss we still think about.
Like Grant from Maryland, who says his most memorable kiss wasn't actually a real kiss.