Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.