I'm proud of what I used to downplay before

Actually it was a big deal

Dedicated to my friend S. who is making me feel more brave these days.

A few years after my first memoir came out, I had learned that there was once a woman who was trying to stop its publication. She was an about-town lady-who-lunches and a journalist and she knew people and people who knew people. She had requested a meeting with my editor and yelled a…