Teenagers in Texas can no longer get birth control on their own. The logic of this escapes me just as it did when I was a teenager and my step-father stole my birth control pills out of my purse. He did not want the shame of a pregnant teenage daughter, that’s certain, so what was the point?
Sex. My step-father did not want me to have sex so he stole my pills. Not logical, but there it is. Why didn’t he want me to have sex? Why is it a crime?
Sex. The only way to slip the human noose and play at the level of angels, the only way to fly without wings, swim without fins, run as if eternally young, dance all night without tiring, fall with the stars, fill with the moon, look the sun in the eye, die a million times without fear, be born a million times without pain, hold a soul in your arms, kiss eternity on the lips, fall in love with God.
Cave paintings show lions mating
millennia
before the first zoo
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