tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667348909154981284.post5186147449358581240..comments2024-03-20T06:55:57.193-07:00Comments on Born to Blog by Beth Kaplan: old lovesbethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09122791819498272634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667348909154981284.post-4049629728529021002018-07-04T18:48:09.588-07:002018-07-04T18:48:09.588-07:00It's a wonderful thing we writers do, to go ba...It's a wonderful thing we writers do, to go back to the young person we were and bring her back to life. And in our books, we bring those others back to themselves too. I think though the depiction of this guy in my book is not a particularly flattering one, he is thrilled to be in a book - and, of course, to find out how much he was loved, back then, whether he knew it or not. And I think, subliminally, he knew it. bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09122791819498272634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667348909154981284.post-34985231718477022862018-07-04T16:32:17.615-07:002018-07-04T16:32:17.615-07:00I love this. So few of us have the opportunity to ...I love this. So few of us have the opportunity to see those boys of our dreams as men. (Who might not share our politics...) I loved a boy when I was in grade 9 and I confess to occasionally trying to google him. I know now that his family was pretty conservative -- they were rich, owned show horses, had an architect-designed house in a community of farms. I've never found him (his name very common...) and I wouldn't know what to do if I did. But you seem to have handled your encounter with grace and humour!theresahttp://www.theresakishkan.comnoreply@blogger.com