Jessica Winters

“I gave up a cat that I loved for a girl that I’m not even sure is allergic to cats.”

“I admit it: I’ve stooped to snooping on boyfriends on many an occasion.”

“My friends and parents all think he took me to the street corner where we met and got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. In reality, I told him that I was pregnant and that the kid would have my last name.”

“I just put on so much red lipstick, I pretty much need a paint gun to get it all on.”

“I’m too pretty to work.”

“I chose to stay to honor the family that we created together. I chose to stay because I can’t imagine my life without him.”

“Calm down.”

“Wait—your name’s not Rick…”

“Loneliness is eating me alive from the inside-out.”

1. College football star mourns the death of a girlfriend who never existed.

“I felt like a little kid standing outside a glass storeroom window staring at a Christmas present I wanted desperately but would never get or even touch.”

Women are right to reclaim and be proud of their natural bodily functions such as menstruation—so why are they still almost uniformly repelled by their own pubic hair?

What are we fighting about again? Do we even know?

8.
The way we both love the smell of wet sidewalk cement after a summertime thunderstorm.