What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

by Kristin Newman

did want to have a family someday … it was just that “someday” never seemed to feel like “today.”

I wanted love, but I also wanted freedom and adventure, and those two desires fought like angry obese sumo wrestlers in the dojo of my soul.

After that, one scary moment became something I was always willing to have in exchange for the possible payoff. I became a girl who knew how to take a deep breath, suck it up, and walk into any room by herself.

“We need a chemical bridge back to friendship,”