I don’t think many of us remember every toy we had as children, but I do know that we remember summers playing mermaids at the pool

I wouldn’t say that my love for Emily was romantic, but it was not entirely platonic either. I loved her like you can only love your childhood best friends. Some combination of sisterhood and friendship with a dash of romantic love tossed in to confuse things.

‘Poor’—the word carries a certain weight, a certain grit, a certain grime, a certain image.