Melissa Llanes Brownlee

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A Difficult Story to Write

My story “To Ever Love One Girl” was published on Milk Candy Review. I would post links but for some reason the squarespace app (which I pay for ) won’t let me make URL for anything in my phone or tablet. So boooooo…. EDITED: Links now added!

I just wanted to talk a little bit about it. It is something that I have been thinking about for most of my life but haven’t really had the courage to talk about it. I probably won’t talk about it much here either but I wanted to just acknowledge that trauma and culture go hand in hand. The mess of culture that created a world where sexual abuse by family is considered better than consensual same sex relationships is an effed up world.

I don’t want to ruin how people view the story but it’s something that makes me sad and also makes me cry.