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When Kellany Fink was diagnosed with herpes as a young teen, she thought her life was over.
On a single day when I was 14, I had my first kiss, I lost my virginity ... and I got herpes.
I'd known Will * for two months. He was older and had been with other girls, but we didn't use protection.
A few weeks later, I noticed blisters down below. When I peed, it hurt so much that I cried. So I went to the ER, where a doctor told me I had one of the worst herpes outbreaks he'd ever seen.
When I told Will, he was shocked--he'd had no idea he was infected because he'd never had symptoms--but he was also comforting. A few months later, though, we broke up, and I was more afraid than ever. In my mind, he had been the only guy I could ever be with because we both had the disease.
After a year, however, I met someone I really liked, and I knew I had to tell him. I was ...
Source: HighBeam Research, "I got an STD the first time I had sex".(THE COSMO POST)(Kellany...