Love in the Land of Freedom
Love never really held much meaning for me. I wished and yearned for freedom instead. And maybe I just was more bereft of one that the other, but growing up in the big house with first and second cousins, taking the toys no one else wanted and the blames no else would; I had embodied love only as freedom. Freedom from judgments delivered partially and from trepidations of causing offense - in the house that was not ours. After all, our mother had been married off and the hous