Dec 30, 2021
8 min read
The Long Girl
She was the confident girl, blossoming into young adulthood and aiming for great things in her life…
As they would say in Europe, she was a long girl. Taller than everyone else in our class, even the boys, and with short, dark wavy hair and bright hazel eyes, gangly and self-conscious in a way that made others uncomfortable. Her posture was terrible and when she came up to you it was with more of a lurch than a normal gait. We’d been…
