Dana Bennett
1 min readJan 1, 2020

The real story, Tara Blair Ball, was in the comments. What drama! What a great narrative to write a whole short story or even start a novel! I read all ALL the comments before I wrote this. I do have this one question, and it was asked in the comments, too — why do you refer to yourself as a “girl”? I get it, but I don’t get it. Women talk to each other and call each other “girls” or “the girls.” I took a romance author to task for calling her very grownup women “girls” and had the guys do it, too.

Oh, “crazy” got a lot of commenting, too. That points in the direction of sexual attraction and ultimately romance. But you never mentioned that. You aren’t a hardline feminist, but I think you’ve forgotten some things elemental to men, too. What do you want? (no emphasis on any word)

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Dana Bennett
Dana Bennett

Written by Dana Bennett

has survived, achieved many things. Storyteller. BAMus, Univ. of Hawaii. MHumanities, Univ. of Colorado Denver. Liver Transplant, Cleveland Clinic.

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