Every time I turn around, my daughter is a different person. At the best of times, writing about your teenage daughter is a bit like looking through one of those old fairground distorting mirrors: one moment she is me, a flick of the hair, a smile, a pose she strikes up; and the next she is utterly and completely not me. And of course, every time I blink, she's become more of a grown-up woman. Soon she'll be grown up and I'll have lost my little baby forever.
Of course, what sort of grown up is still very much in the air. She likes boys. She likes girls. But how you identify yourself - hetro - homo - bi - has do to with more things than just sex. Which is what makes teenagehood so fascinating, and frustrating, and complex. Thank God I don't have to do it again.
Tess is Amy's current girlfriend. Though this picture makes her look
quite young - must be the pig-tails - she's actually nice Amy's age, which creates for an interesting dynamic (which is code, of course). But Amy is handling the relationship with some maturity - as she
juggles it with the demands of her studies, her ``normal" friends, and her family.
Stories featuring my Amy
Read our Blog Amy now occasionally contributes to our family weblog, see her at Emily Sick Family blog.
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