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Who was your first celebrity crush?
Submitted by Glory.
I'm not sure I've ever had a "celebrity crush" - my crushes are generally on fictional characters. Usually, if I've fallen in love with a fictional character who is played by a particular actor, I find I have no attraction at all to the actor if he's in another role or being interviewed as himself.
My first crush like this that I can recall came when I was in fourth grade or so. I remember it was fourth grade because I clearly remember gazing out the window and coming up with stories in my head about me interacting with this particular character, and that window was definitely in my fourth grade classroom. I have to confess that as a fourth grader I was deeply in love with Barnabas Collins, from Dark Shadows.
I don't understand it one little bit. It's just not right. I never told anyone - all the other little girls gushed about cute-boy pop stars, but who did I want? The creepy old vampire dude. I pretended to appreciate the cute-boys, because it was expected of me (I did that often as a child, about many things), but I never really did. It was Barnabas for me.
