“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”
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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.