 MY MASSIVE FEELINGS (FRAGMENTS FROM THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL)
By Laurie WeeksLike everything else I write, this piece started out as a one-page fragment consigned for several years to the drawer of Shame and Self-Loathing. When I was living in San Diego a couple of years ago, teaching and learning to surf, I pulled it out and finished it, then took it down the hall to Paula and Julie’s apartment. “Does this story make you hate and want to kill me?” I said. Its genesis was my love of terrible poetry and my own experience growing up in a ranch-style home in Idaho that was basically a padded cell surrounded by other mindle...
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