At 32, My Girlhood is Still Alive and Well
> It’s tempting to romanticize childhood, to believe that life was once more vibrant simply because we were young. But the truth is, we weren’t just young - we were present. Our attention was sharper, our awareness wider. The world was unfamiliar, and our brains, hungry for understanding, devoured every detail.... See more
ivetsubstack.comthis pit in my stomach when I think about the beginnings of one direction and where I was back then. how I was only 10-12 and the longing feeling I had back then and if I have disappointed her?
That night on the phone, I asked her if she thinks about when Bruce Springsteen will die, and she started crying, so I did too. “I honestly can’t imagine a world without him in it,” she said. “It would make me feel even older than I already feel. It would be the end of my youth. Because even if he’s not running around onstage anymore, it’s in my
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