She had been wrong to die the way she did, I knew this for sure, and also, I had been wrong wanting to be her. I had been wrong in my need for approval, my brass ring hopes, thinking I could earn love and affection by dressing well enough and fetching enough coffee.
I haven't been able to bend my left pointer finger for the last six months. It moves far enough to form the shape of a claw. No farther. It's as if I'm perpetually pointing at everything in my path.
Am I furious because I think my own femininity is diminished if others don’t perceive Adam as competent and strong? I want to be seen as feminine even when rejecting such notions.
I don’t mean to be depressing but these are things I never considered. I always thought it never could happen to me. But as you know it did. Learn from my life. Be thankful you have this to learn from.
I pray every night that you will be spared from having any significant illness and I pray whoever you share your life with will always be healthy. That neither of you will have to be a caretaker to the other. I want only the best for you in all things.
When people said “Why didn’t they say anything before?” about the rape allegations about Bill Cosby, I knew why they kept quiet. Accuse Cliff Huxtable of rape? Hey, why don’t you just shoot yourself in the foot? He’s such a good father, a family man.
My boyfriend broke up this past week. He told me he needed time for himself and to focus on getting his life in order. Come to find out he has been cheating on me. My heart is breaking.
My whole life, I thought I was fat. Sometimes I was, squeezing my sausage flesh into size 18’s and sometimes I wasn’t, with size 8 Gap jeans falling down on my hips.
