Keeping You A Secret

listed six acts, and I scanned through them, trying to glean even a hint of the pleasures

Please, God," I whispered into the night. “Let me be loved.”

Why did she make me feel like she was my mother and father and friend and lover all rolled into one? Because she was. She was my everything.

have a philosophy here: Accept the help you need; give the help you can.”

SAFE SPACE and LOVE SPOKEN HERE

Kate added, “She’s just asking for trouble.”

I thought she was asking for acceptance. I almost said it.

Expectations. They ruled my life.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

For some reason I felt relieved.

I just couldn't get motivated.

couldn't imagine another four years poring over textbooks and writing reports and giving presentations and staging all-nighters.