I have a pretty large family. My oldest brother is about thirty one. My parents started having us pretty young.
I have a fifteen year old nephew, Gear, that I love very much. We're the exact same age.
"Auntie Izzi." He always greets me warmly with a hug and a kiss on the cheek whenever I see him. He's taller than me, at 5 foot five. "I missed you, even though I saw you at school, like, yesterday."
"Hey, squirt."...

GuYS, Cupid, my kitten son, peed on my favorite pair of converse.
I'm nauseous.
I'm happy.
I'm in love and I don't care who knows.

I stayed in the hospital the rest of the night as doctors checked me out.

I’d been hiding a lot from my parents.
I’d been trying to get skinnier.

After dinner, I’d try to force myself to vomit it all back up. But that usually happened naturally when the migraines came on.
I’d worked myself too hard, dancing until my feet bled.
And when I looked at myself in the mirror. I saw an ugly, repulsive, repugnant piece of trash. ...

There are white lies..
There are big lies
There are small ones.
Of all shapes and sizes and situations.
And the main reason why people lie to to keep another from getting hurt.
But the arrow string was pulled too far back.
And last night, that arrow was let go.
Deception is more transparent than one's first thought.

I suppose I was being stupid, believing in you. 
"I've never dated anyone before."
Bullshit.

But that doesn't mean that I don't...