Have you ever been in love?
I don’t mean the kind of sensible love of matched personalities and long marriages. I mean the can’t-catch-your-breath adolescent love of terrible poetry and teenage heartbreak. When you’re in this be-still-my-beating-heart kind of love, your mind can think of nothing else. It doesn’t matter if the object of your love [...]
Archive for October, 2005
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09Oct05My best friend in college was a woman named Carissa. She was raised in Houston and Singapore in a family in the oil business. I was raised overseas, too, but by two teachers. While my family cleaned up okay, elegance was never our greatest strength.
Carissa got married right after college and, as one of [...]
