If you wanted to hang out, you went to Deerbrook Mall—the nearest major commerce center to Kingwood, the Houston suburb where I grew up. Deerbrook was good for walking. It’s where, at just days old, my mom took me on my first public outing. Fast-forward to high school in 2008, and I was almost guaranteed to run into other groups of errant teenagers who were similarly looking for opportunities to confront each other in our mysterious after-school clothes and flirt beneath the neon of capitalism. We had fast metabolisms for romance. The mall was our incubator. Entire relationships were born and died at Deerbrook before our parents picked us up.
The Woodlands Mall
1201 Lake Woodlands Dr., Ste. 700, The Woodlands…