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We’ve become a one stop shop.

First lesson of survival? Never get in the car.

There was a really bad week in 1979. Biblical plagues kind of bad. No brimstone, but there will be fire and insects...
I outgrew undershirts and training bras and had an epiphany. Boobs appeared on my chest at the same time boys started appearing at my door.

With no model for a good marriage or a happy home, I let Times Square become my Smalltown USA, where I fit in with everyone who didn't fit in.

When passion turned to violence, this is also what survival looked like

Excavating feelings I hadn’t been aware I was feeling

If life was a horror movie, this’d be the scene when the audience starts screaming at the stupid white girl “No! Don’t go in there!” With audio.

A wedding ring told the world I belonged to someone, that someone loved me enough to brand me. Also, the twins, Shame and Loneliness.

I'd set a very low bar for boyfriends. Having subsisted on emotional crumbs, almost any attention was intoxicating. Warning: Do not get between a girl and her intoxicant.