A few weeks after moving to my new city and new school, I met a boy named Sam. I genuinely liked Sam and Sam liked me. We only casually dated at first and I still slept with other people (I told you I

In the weeks that followed losing my virginity at 14, I remained shackled to fear. Fear of pregnancy. I went so far as to write a note to God begging him to not let me be pregnant. I probably atoned and

If you haven't read the first 2 chapters in this series, you might want to start there so that you have some context to what I'm about to drop. Moving forward, PLEASE BE WARNED: I will be writing about

I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince