He doesn't understand I want the freedom to make my own mistakes. - Jeanette Winterson

I was a miracle in that I could have taken her out of her life and into a life she would have liked a lot. It never happened, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything– the miracle– is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves. (p.31)

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.

Tell me a story, Pew.