"I'm ready for amazing things to happen. I can handle it."

"We're not sick of each other yet!"

Me And You And Everyone We Know was a poignant, satisfying movie on a day where just that afternoon, I was IM'ing with a friend about crushes. The kind of pubescent crushes where you can't breathe for two weeks because your heart seems to freeze around that certain person. The kind of crushes where it was enough just to see someone in the hallways at school but never speak a word to them, and the feeling alone was enough to sustain you on cloud nine for months. When what you daydreamed about was holding hands not kinky behavior. Before things got complicated and people got jaded, and sex became tedious and formulaic, and those intense little moments stopped being enough.

And then this movie came along and took that fantasy and nostalgia and injected it into adults, and the outcome is endearingly irresistable. In a flip-flopped but seemingly realistic world, the kids are the ones getting all the (risque) action. They aren't damaged enough like the rest of us to only want comfort from the opposite sex. Two Lolitas flirts obscenely with a neighborhood man and gives another teen a "jimmy ha-ha" as a curious experiment. One super adorable 7-year-old even accidentally makes a middle-aged woman fall in love with him via Internet with the oh so memorably hilarious chat:

"I want to poop back and forth."

"What does that mean?"

"I'll poop into your butthole and you'll poop it back into my butt and we'll keep doing it back and forth, with the same poop. Forever."

I laughed so hard at this little boy explaining it, tears streamed down my face, and I honestly thought I would never stop laughing. Two scenes later, normal breathing finally commenced.

Meanwhile, its the grown-ups fumbling with awkward emotions and flirting without any innuendo. They don't even get so much as a kiss, but you don't care because that's not what it's about. I totally relate when the main character is sitting on her bed psychically willing the guy to call her and bemoans, "We're supposed to spend the rest of our lives together. Fucker! It can't happen unless you call!" And I want that short walk symbolizing a lifetime together or to lean against someone's back with your arm around his stomach just standing there at dusk, and it is enough, in fact it is all you could possibly desire in the whole world.

In this film where the kids are blazing forward in sexual explorations, the adults are retreating from them, diving under windows hiding from them, preferring instead to sleep together all day, like little babies.

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Forever.

"After the kiss comes the impulse to throttle,

Break the embraces, dance while you can." - W. H. Auden