Love this piece, Patricia--all the sharing of your secret-keeping through the years...and now, life changed! I hope you might consider sending me a copy of your book when ready so I can review it for Write&Review. (I just did this with fellow Medium-writer Carol Labuzzetta's most recent--fun! https://medium.com/write-and-review/how-the-way-of-writing-is-a-river-and-poetry-is-the-water-fe3c22b1a136 )

Again, thank you for sharing -- so good!