Chapter One - At Seventeen
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Chapter One - At Seventeen
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At seventeen, I was still a virgin who flinched when someone looked at me too long. I learned some very hard truths, though no one pulled me aside to explain them. There was no ceremony, no gentle revelation. Just a slow accumulation of evidence that became impossible to ignore.
Funny how life negotiates its terms.
Love, it seemed, was meant for the beauty queens.
The girls with luminous skin and effortless laughter. The ones boys circled instinctively, as if drawn by a force older than reason.
The rest of us learned by watching.
It was 1968, and I was lonely in the particular way that only adolescents can be: surrounded by people, yet entirely unseen.
Westchester, New York, was the kind of town that rewarded polish and punished deviation. Lawns were trimmed, reputations carefully curated, and daughters quietly measured against one another like entries at a county fair. I never placed.