The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.