The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

we had each other. I never needed anyone else. That’s the difference between you and me. You need all these people around you. Your friends, your boyfriend, everyone. Every single person has to like you. I only ever needed one person. Only ever needed you.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

Try a little tenderness.

Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.

I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you’ll tell them and you wonder what they’re doing, and you know they’re wondering what you’re doing.

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.