When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.

When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.

You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way.