I've finally made up my mind.  I'm going to break up with Stanley.  It's going to be hard, but I believe it is wholly necessary.  I just don't see us ever getting that spark back.  I want to be sure we can still be friends, but this relationship is done.  I would do it today, but he is absent from school.  I don't want to hurt him, but this has to happen.  I will most likely do it tomorrow.  There are many problems I realized when I talked to Cristina.  For one, he is just too immature.  I'm sick of high school boys and their crap.  Every relationship he has been in was with a younger girl who let him do whatever he wanted, and I believe he doesn't want to change that.  Also, I enjoy intellectual conversations about politics, psychology, and life in general.  With Stanley, these conversations are impossible.  He is immature and naive.  He has no idea what is going on in the world around him.  I cannot handle this.  I  REQUIRE INTELLECT!!!  These things are making Preston all the more attractive to me.  He is four years older than me, is in the NAVY, and has been in many different types of relationships; therefore, he is certainly more mature and, of course, knows all about politics and the world, and he actually has political opinions--a vital fact.