It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
Lauren DeStefanoHe says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.
Lauren DeStefanoBet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.
Lauren DeStefanoThere was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
Lauren DeStefano