love, enormous

I resent being called a "cradle-robber." My boyfriend is a year and a half younger than I. Gender reversed this would hardly be an exorbitant age difference.

Why isn't it people say what they mean "you are old, dried up soon unable to bear children and therefore worthless, he is too good for you, you are breaking the rules and we don't like it."

Honesty is simple and simplicity breaks the spell that cities and calculations and illness have over me. I am twenty two years old and when I am dead I want to be rolled beneath a tree and swallowed up by the earth while I am far away, laughing and dancing and being incredibly stupid in the place the Lord has saved for me.