"Weird Al" Yankovic has shared a touching story of reconnecting with an old crush, saying he wanted to remind people that, despite the horrors of 2020, most of us also had moments of joy.
The singer posted on Facebook about how, earlier this year, he reconnected with his high school crush, nearly 50 years since they had last spoken.
"Weird Al" recounted the time when he was 12 and tried to impress the girl he liked.
"I was 12 years old in the 9th grade - younger than my classmates, and (as you may possibly be able to imagine) pretty awkward, shy and nerdy. And I had a crush on Patrice Y, the girl who sat directly in front of me in math class (because the seats were all arranged in alphabetical order for some arbitrary reason)," the Grammy-winning singer wrote on Facebook.
"Of course, Patrice would never in a million years have suspected that I had a crush on her, because like I explained… painfully shy. But one day I decided I would make my big move - I decided to draw a picture of her and present her with it," he continued.