My biology class was packed to the brim for the first time since the beginning of the semester. I looked around to see several faces who hadn’t been present for the majority of my lectures, and yet they had all decided to join the class today. No surprise there. The entire Science Department was abuzz…
When I was seventeen and reckless, I dated a boy who feared nothing. Together, we discovered every vice, and after school we’d slip away into a haze of smoke and wine coolers and explore each others’ bodies until dark. One day, he told me about a secret garden where fruit grew even in the winter….
I was there when he bought the damn thing. We went to a garage sale just out of town; an old woman’s house that had the driveway filled to the very edge with hand-me-downs and knick-knacks. My sister Angie and I were waving through a selection of old dresses when he surprised us with it….