We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

“Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealin…”

“I'd stopped waving to passengers in cars by then- I'd grown suspicious of peopl…”

“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her…”

“Mom’s smiles were so full of feeling that people leaned back a little when she …”