“take my hands. close your eyes. now feel.”
at some point in my childhood my parents gave up on trying to force friendships with other boys onto me. they waved their white flag and let me go over to the neighbor’s house to play with barbies every week. when i’d go to a new school i’d always gravitate towards making friends with girls, and as the years went by those girls became women. our journeys and hardships were different yet…
