You and Nicole will find yourselves sharing stories of former boyfriends, former sexual experiences, and together sorting through the strangeness of how we blame ourselves when we could have set stronger borders, when you whispered no but you could have shouted it, how you begin to see yourself as a person without substance: the world not within your control. How this shades into every crisis, every loss, how you look for the place where you could have shouted no, and made it stop, you make everything your fault.
