Growing up, I always felt like I was on the outside looking in. We were a military family, and we moved a lot. I didn’t make friends easily, and as a mixed-race family, we were all subjected to racism in many forms. Without even understanding what was happening, I internalized this trauma, and it became some serious self-hatred.

After high school, I began to come into my own, so to speak. Men started finding me attractive, which was something I was not at all used to. But I never considered being the kind of young woman who would have premarital sex, and although I dated, I always kept it clean.

Until one night.

It’s Like Earwax

Kaylee was about seven when she passed along this particular bit of wisdom.