The Secrets in Your Flesh

Thinking about that star-crossed love affair of my girlhood has revealed some interesting things. I thought I was over the loss, but I wasn’t.  When what you had was a secret and what you lost equally secret, you don’t ever get to grieve. To avoid grieving, I’d half-convinced myself I never felt the things I [...]

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Romance for little girls

I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about a childhood romance I had with a much older man.  The sort of romance that’s hard to share in broad daylight, but one that is beautiful all the same.  In thinking about it and trying to write about it in a way that’s honest and fair, I [...]

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