But Then The Wine Came, One Glass

American Companies Spend More Than $200 Billion Each Year Hacking Women's Bodies Into Bits And Pieces, Urging Comparisons Between Self And Other, Linking Value To Air-brushed Ideals, And As The Girls In My Seventh-grade Class Graduated To High School And Beyond, The Imagery Around Us Would Only Grow More Specific, More Pummeling, More Insidious.

When You Quit Drinking You Stop Waiting.

A Lot Of People, Quite Frankly, Think Intense Attachments To Animals Are Weird And Suspect, The Domain Of People Who Can't Quite Handle Attachments To Humans.

But Then The Wine Came, One Glass And Then A Second Glass. And Somewhere During That Second Drink, The Switch Was Flipped. The Wine Gave Me A Melting Feeling, A Warm Light Sensation In My Head, And I Felt Like Safety Itself Had Arrived In That Glass, Poured Out From The Bottle And Allowed To Spill Out Between Us.

When You Love Somebody, Or Something, Its Amazing How Willing You Are To Overlook The Flaws.