Carrie Soto Is Back

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Some men’s childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done. And yet here is Carrie Soto, daring to play.

It is her right to have fun, to keep playing. To not help with dinner. And I, for one, am glad she’s exercising it.

We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.

I wonder if this is how he felt when my mother died: flattened by the impossibility and yet inevitability of tomorrow.

Both of us laugh, and I don’t have a shred of guilt for feeling joyful without my father on this earth. This is the tiniest beginning of a terrible, beautiful whole new life.