The Hardest Part of Writing My Memoir Was Telling My Family About It

You should watch Euphoria, a friend told me while we were on a walk during our young daughters’ dance class. I wasn’t sure why she would suggest this. Particularly in the context of our conversation: I was confiding in her about the anxiety that felt like it had been boiling inside of me for weeks, […] The post The Hardest Part of Writing My Memoir Was Telling My Family About It appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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