The bar that I held myself to as a young child was unattainable, unbeknownst to me. It basically amounted to perfection. It looked like perfect beauty, smarts, holiness, the right weight, the right clothes, the right hair, and the right heart all rolled up into one. No one I knew measured up,...
She breathed in and experienced an overwhelming sense of life.
Her life. The life all around her. The life inside her. Everywhere, the world teemed with life. She found herself caught up in the wonder of it all.
What she was experiencing was impossible, unheard of, except in the scrolls of...