This is a love story. Although, not in the conventional sense because I have never been a conventional kinda woman.
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National Organization of Women formed during my teen years. Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny and Billy Jean King had beaten down the sexual stigma in sports.
I pursued my equality as well. I viewed marriage as the death of my freedom because I saw it in the maternal members of my family. I was not going to follow in their footsteps.
I have been a waitress, a pizza cook, college student, respiratory therapist, sergeant in the army, laundry worker, chambermaid, bartender and secretary. In short, everything BUT a wife and mother.
I have always been an avid reader, and it is books that seduced me into wanting to be a writer. Not just any writer, but create stories in the likeness of Jong or Vonnegut - but I got a late start and I just don't have the talent. So I'll have to check my ego at the door and write in the likeness of me.
I have lived the life I've wanted, working hard to earn my own living, solving my own problems, and satisfying my own desires. Selfish and hedonistic, yes, but I would have neither been a good partner nor a good mother. This is how I arrived alone at my age.