She Said I Couldn’t Hold The Baby Because Of “Germs” — The Real Reason Broke My Heart

who was not who I believed him to be and I did not want to carry that miseducation forward without examination. The work was slow and not dramatic and occasionally illuminating in the way that good therapy is illuminating: not through revelations but through the gradual permission to see what had always been visible.

One evening in late spring I was continue reading …