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Most of the girls I know carry knives. And yes, Chicago is considered one of the most dangerous cities in America. And I live under three hours away from it. Yippee. But it seriously is a cool place, and fun to visit if you’re with a group. I think it’d be downright scary by myself. Ha ha, just thought of something that demonstrates that guys are really and truly meant to be the protectors and girls know this… last time we were there I really wanted to go down these steps that led to an underground street, but I and the other two girls I was with weren’t going to without a boy. It was dark and secluded. We recognized our need for a protector and chose not to place ourselves in a potentially dangerous situation without a guy to help us if we needed it. So now I just want to go back with a guy sometime, cause it looked really cool down there.

Oh, yes, the street side too. I remember that from a movie where a ‘tom-boy’ fell in love and she walked out with her beau onto the sidewalk, taking the street side. He slowed and gestured very politely for her to take the other side, then continued walking with him on the street side.

Okay, and I know that we’ve had a lot of chivalry stories going around, but I just have to post one more because it might be my favorite ever, and it’s not even about me. @evelyn @ericawordsmith you might enjoy this.

I was walking down the street and I saw this couple coming the opposite way down the sidewalk on the other side of the road. They moved along kind of funny, so I tried to watch without being rude. But when they got closer I saw what was actually going on, and it was sooo sweet!!!

The young woman, maybe twenty, was wearing a metal brace from her knee down, and I think she couldn’t extend her leg all the way properly, which made her have a huge limp. Her arm was slipped through the arm of the young man beside her… older, probably twenty-five, and he was acting as her crutch. She would hop forward once, he’d take a step and lift her forward again. She almost fell once, and he just grabbed both her hands and held her up until she got her footing. Then she gave him a kiss. But it was so adorable to see them walking down the street like this, with the girl not using crutches but her boyfriend/husband (I didn’t know which) being willing to be them for her!