Amazing word use

At times, even today, I see her ashamed, thawing. It only takes a baby misstep: caught from the wrong angle or tangled in bad feedback, cut with a tinge of criticism, pinned down by a thought of a mythical woman that once reigned my side of the bed, or broken by a bad day. She’s five, she’s thirteen, she’s twenty one, inadequate and alien, making a... See more

I had reserved cautiousness for his sense of self and he was quite careless with mine.