4.20.2010

El tiempo de las chicas raras

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.