It’s cold outside, but this personal
essay will warm you up. In “The LUG in
Winter,” writer Sarah Hepola took a look back at her own college days, MTV’s
forays, and all the girl-on-girl kissing that Britney and X-tina engaged in,
before they were preggers. Things got a little
hot on the message boards, as well: there was almost as much heated back-and-forth
among readers, as we can imagine there was in Sarah’s dorm room bed…
Things
were different when I first kissed a girl. My story is fairly typical: I was
twenty years old, and drunk, and at a party, and the tale of how my friend
Carolyn went from lying beside me to having her tongue inside my mouth is not
the first story lost to Jack Daniel's. She and I had been cuddling and fondling
each other's hair on the couch, and the kiss seemed almost a natural extension
of that behavior. Later, after I sobered up, it was a little astonishing; I was
a good Texas girl with childhood
dreams of Johnny Depp and River Phoenix. But the most
astonishing part was how good that kiss was — soft and warm and shot full with
longing. Ten years later, it is still one of the best kisses I've ever had.
Cuddle up with Sarah: read the entire
essay here.
