![]() ![]() ![]() Teenage girls are always loving their friends, becoming entangled, like trees grown together, so you think that’s what it is. You are 16 when you fall in love with your best friend-only you don’t understand the “in” part yet, so you just call it love. ![]() ![]() There are no windows and no doors, the bed is too soft-or too firm-and the books aren’t your taste, and the clothes in the closet have never really fit, and it’s a little hard to breathe in here, but it’s your room. Nor does it have to be overnight, with a lightning bolt of recognition. Schwab likens her decades-long realization to moving through a house, and realizing, again and again, that certain identities are not quite "home." It's a feat of storytelling that only Schwab can pull off.Ĭoming out, as this essay from Schwab shows, doesn't have to happen in high school. In this essay for 's Coming Out series, Schwab deploys her characteristic figurative language to describe her own coming-out story-this time around, essentially, she's the character. She didn't come out as gay until she was in her late 20s-partially, she writes, because she didn't have the vocabulary. Temi Oyeyolaīut while her characters freely lived out their romantic (and supernatural) adventures, Schwab felt constrained to pursue her own. ![]()
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