My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
In junior high school I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress...
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14 it's being washed up right after.
