Annie on My Mind

We were still very shy, and clumsy, and a little scared — but it was as if we had found a whole new country in each other and ourselves and were exploring it slowly together.

Someone said something about three o'clock in the morning being the dark night of soul — something like that.

"For a unicorn," I think I said, "you're pretty smart."

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

"Words fail me," she said - but, like most people who say that, she somehow managed to continue.

That's why I like that quote so much, the one about the truth making one free. It does, you know, whatever that truth is.

"Loving! Lusting, you mean. Read your Bible, Liza. Ms. Baxter showed me it's even mentioned there. Read Leviticus, read Romans X: 26."

I don't know what I said then. Maybe I didn't say anything. I'm not sure I was able to think anymore. I do remember, though, that I went home and read Leviticus and Romans, and cried again.