Seventeen

“Don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

Seventeen, Splendour In The Grass

“Lady, if you have goodwill, people will always take advantage of it!” the Chinese cab driver said to me firmly and aggressively, like it was a pain he knew all too well and wanted to protect me from.

I was stopping by all the pubs and bars my boyfriend would usually frequent, looking for him to drag him home, like a 50s …