And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

“They sounded a lot like me and my old girlfriend Loretta, but I swore to myself…”

“She is sixteen and her skin is the darkness before the black, the plum of the d…”

“You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better…”

“The word came into common usage during the First American Occupation of the DR,…”