What I Wish I’d Known Before My Colposcopy

The procedures couldn’t be performed for about three weeks, so I had plenty of time to research and worry. I freaked out so much that my mother offered to fly out and be with me when I had the procedure. I ultimately decided she didn’t have to.

What Love Is, Versus What Love Is Not

Love was all the songs we listened to on my record player, all the nightmares we had lying next to each other, all the times you slept with your hand below my bottom rib.