By Any Other Name

by Lauren Kate

If you need someone to spill a big glass of water as soon as you sit down at an important agent lunch, I’m your gal.

I could have sunk into a puddle of shame watching Alix de Rue read what I’d written about Scorpios in the sack. When I’d made this list, I’d felt free. Now I thought about my mother and wondered whether she would be embarrassed.

I am in a funk not even Taylor Swift can penetrate.

“Okay, BD!” I say, laughing. “I get it, but what’s the point?” “That no one person can fulfill every single one of another person’s needs. Which is why book clubs and grandmothers exist.