First Person Singular by Wendy Braitman

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An Inconvenient Romance

March 31, 2010 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

A few years ago when I was traveling a lot for work, I got used to the hassle of transit – flight delays, misplaced luggage, a lost passport and perhaps hardest of all, a makeup case left behind (which sent me immediately upon landing to the Lancome counter of the nearest department store.) It’s the same way when you’re single long enough, and you realize you’ve been through what feels like every manner of inconvenient romance – from bi-coastal to bi-lingual, bi-sexual, sexually impotent, emotionally impotent and the all-too-ordinary yet wrenching romance with a married man (or woman). Love with animals by comparison seems entirely sane.

Image: Forbidden Romance by Leia Bell

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