Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
Make no mistake adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
