'Other women my age are reveling in this newfound freedom, too, but for some reason when we talk about it, we whisper, like it’s a shameful secret to enjoy getting older.'
Once, at a street market in Moscow, I dismissed the advances of a guy. A block later he caught up with me and punched me in the back of the head. Hard.
Living in NY in my twenties, this was my walk to work: Hi, Baby, why don’t you smile? Smile! What’s wrong with you? Why don’t you smile? Let me see that pretty smile. Back then, I claimed I was going to make a t-shirt that said politely , Please don’t tell me to smile. And I was going to wear it every day because I needed it literally every single day because apparently I was a decoration and I was doing a lousy job prettying up the place.
When I read that, I wanted to write him a thank you note. I wanted to say thank you for this poem because I was just about to turn 43, and it helped me so much. I mean, what a giant relief! In one stanza he explained to me exactly why I’d been so inexplicably happy recently.
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